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. – Orson Pratt
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. – Paul Weyrich
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. – Rudy Giuliani
It’s downright undignified how many blazers I’ve bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible. – Rashida Jones
All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected. – Russell M. Nelson
In the late 19th century, the Populists – a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers – threatened to overturn established authority. – Robert Dallek
Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that’s thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history. – Richard Ben-Veniste
Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can’t say he doesn’t agree with it, because when he did that, that contract was already written. It was already set up – that treaty was already set up. – Paul Nehlen
Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you’re writing a blog about it. – Robert Scoble
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren’t very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. – Rupert Everett
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. – Robert Metcalfe
They don’t want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state. – Roy Moore
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. – Robert Hall
Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated. – Ron DeSantis
There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority. – Pratibha Patil
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn’t the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn’t the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come. – Peter Riegert
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – Seamus Heaney
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. – Peter Straub
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. – William Temple
Obama’s great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous. – Tina Brown
We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies. – Will Speck
What we know about Cleopatra’s looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority. – Stacy Schiff
Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn’t have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel. – Vint Cerf
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. – William H. Seward