#authority

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#boots #defer #does #follow #i

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #before #bow #i #imposed

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#authority #feel #i #like #old

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#been #earth #given #heaven #me

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#bank #believe #democracy #did #end

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#culture #did #dominating #feeling #had

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#authority #book #hands #infantryman #like

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#authority #bound #consider #constrain #experiment

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#humble #individual #questions #reasoning #science

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#distance #prestige #without #work