Quotes About Authority

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

When the President acts, he must do so pursuant to constitutionally enumerated Article II powers or statutory power allocated to him by Congress.

Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

I'm practically a historian.

How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.

Every guy I touch, it's the same result. When I land, it's like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

I always look for judges who respect precedent.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

I prefer to be the captain of the ship, call the shots and be more creative.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics.

What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.