Pastoral Resources

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.