#authority

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#business #decisions #emotional #instead #interesting

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#authority #authorizing #benjamin #benjamin franklin #bush

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis. ↗

— John Wycliffe

#authority #church #consequently #exercise #existence

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family. ↗

— David J. Vaughan

#family #leadership #family

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#intelligence #intelligence

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! ↗

— Joseph Heller

#authority #conservatism #conservatives #military #right-wingers

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#ambitious #authority #enough #free #itself

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#act #authority #days #fate #frank

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have. ↗

— Susan Powter

#authority #biggest #diminish #end #end result