Quotes About Authority

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

It is quite acceptable for either party to explicitly go after the black, Hispanic, or even the Jewish vote. In fact both parties gain an indispensable moral authority by doing so.

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.

When you're carrying weight, you have more power. People certainly don't look at you as a bimbo.

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

One thing that you find out later in life is that you have a lot more power than you think you do.

I don't see how there is anyone, after God, who has more power than me in the country.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

Moses is our true founding father.

The most powerful thing billionaires have isn't their voice. It's earth-shattering, continent-moving, war-starting amounts of money.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

New Jersey's governorship is the most powerful in the nation.