Pastoral Resources

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

Authority is never without hate.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.