#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

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#authority #four #freedom #human #human rights

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#how #money #paper #president #sends

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#authority #critic #food #i #really

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed. ↗

— Imran Khan

#authority #country #easily #feudal #most

No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#actions #authority #body #case #even

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#arrangement #authority #cia #classified #could

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#authority #maximal #minimal #power #should