Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
Herman Kahn
Related Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot... JACQUES MARITAIN What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power... DADA BHAGWAN Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility. AMIT KALANTRI It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be... SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN His authority has disappeared virtually to vanishing point. He is in office but not in power. MICHAEL HOWARD When your absence has the authority of your presence, that is power. HARRIET RUBIN Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Authority is not a quality one person has, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. ... ERICH FROMM With the lifting of the ban, de-boned beef cuts from young cattle (less than 30 months old) from the... VETERINARY AUTHORITY No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. HANS REICHENBACH Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical q... ERICH FROMM Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. FRANCIS BACON Our job is to serve each tribe. We don't supplant their authority; we do not override their authorit... CHARLES HUDSON The government does not have the authority to exclude foreign scholars at the border simply because ... JAMEEL JAFFER The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. KENNETH H. BLANCHARD The faith that stand on authority is not faith. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The faith that stands on authority is not faith. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The faith that stand on authority is not faith. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them. CLIFFORD COHEN There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority t... VAN WYCK BROOKS Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of a... SUZY KASSEM The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. KEN BLANCHARD A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. UNKNOWN A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. FRANK A. CLARK They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality i... GEORGE HADDOW It's not a drop-dead date as far as getting water or not, but joining the authority is the next step... ANNMARIE ROBINSON It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make... FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. THOMAS HOBBES It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law THOMAS HOBBES All slots belong to the Airports Authority of India and the authority on needs of a public service a... AJAY PRASAD The question of whether or not Congress has the authority to federally recognize a Native Hawaiian g... DANIEL AKAKA There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori... VAN WYCK BROOKS Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that au... MAHMOUD ABBAS Someone in the state has to have the authority to ensure that there is not widespread voter fraud in... LUKE MASSIE Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in tho... FERDINAND MARCOS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a difference between caring and not having the legal authority. BRAD STONE Congress has given us the authority to set safety standards. We're merely restating our authority. W... RAE TYSON The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. THOMAS HUXLEY Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outw... JOHN ORTBERG The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as ... DAVID TRACY Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. OSCAR WILDE In the cult, the people in power dictate what cult members are to do. Children raised in cults are s... LYNETTE S. DANYLCHUK Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but i... DAVID A. BEDNAR Tom DeLay should not be in a position of authority. He should not be calling the shots or driving th... CHRISTOPHER SHAYS Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech... ROBERT REICH The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in... WALTER LIPPMANN When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. JIM MORRISON The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That m... LEONARD BOSWELL As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. ... RODRIGO DUTERTE Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon ... POPE JOHN XXIII Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. THOMAS HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. THOMAS HUXLEY There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right JULIO DAVILA To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Authority is not in the loudest of voices, but in the wisest. J.R. MORALES We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. ... RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like ... HAL HOLBROOK To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny ... SIR ALFRED JULES AYER To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny ... JOSEPH ADDISON Unless we can do that, we're both buying trouble. The Ports Authority is not going to give us any cl... DEAN MOSS I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe tha... SIEGFRIED SASSOON The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the w... SAMUEL ADAMS The highest duty is to respect authority LEO XIII Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doub... ROBERT LINDNER Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doub... ROBERT LINDNER Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doub... VITA SACKVILLE-WEST The constitution gives me explicit and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I d... MAHMUD ABBAS The Ports Authority is not seeking to acquire any land for any inland port. We need to make it clear... BYRON MILLER He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him
gold; and though authority be a stubbo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt... ALBERT EINSTEIN PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing abso... AMBROSE BIERCE Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of re... JAMES MADISON It is very seldom that the NTC has used its power and authority to close down radio stations and TV ... RONALD SOLIS The river of knowledge has no depth. CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I have to emphasize - and this is important - that they have not been in default of any obligation t... CARL GOLDBERG Your role model determines what authority and power that extends to you SUNDAY ADELAJA Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue. ADAM COHEN Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion not coercion. JEFFREY BENJAMIN The frustrating part is that I still do not know who I could call with the Tigers who has the author... BRIAN GOLDBERG Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd WILLIAM PENN The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in conte... HAROLD RUSSELL A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. THOMAS SZASZ These two words, authority and responsibility go together. There is no responsibility without author... CARMELO ABELA The airport authority is optimistic it will be constructed. BRUCE FRALLIC The big question in our minds is over who has authority. LINDA BAKER Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. THOMAS JEFFERSON The Holy Bible is an AUTHORITY OVER MANKIND and any Prophet of any Christian Ministry or any Christi... MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI ...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav... MALCOLM GLADWELL Why should I carry the costs? My contract was extended by a competent authority and then a subsequen... WALLACE MGOQI
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