Authorities Quotes

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself. — Richard P. Feynman

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt. — Vijay Mallya

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. — Kate Adie

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. — Barry Eisler

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back. — Bill Ferguson

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals. — Wang Jianlin

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found — Bertrand Russell

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. — Joe Royle

The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. — Russell Baker

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces — Sunday Adelaja

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors. — Neil Postman

Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. — Cofer Black

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. — Germaine Greer

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it ... Hilarious. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

So if ketosis is so desirable, then why has there been such deafening silence or even fierce negativity on the subject from health authorities? — Eric C. Westman

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. — Bill Cosby

Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help - perhaps a good deal of help. — Bill Bryson

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. — Leigh Steinberg

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. — Randall Munroe

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. — George Pataki

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. — Matt Groening

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. — Hans Denck

Anyone who sets themselves up as an authority on life is a charlatan. — Marty Rubin

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. — Nikolai Gogol

But because of the religious element in our message, and the desire of the authorities not to offend our religious — Maajid Nawaz

In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted — Charles Dickens

We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so. — Ignatius Of Loyola

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave. — Michael Shermer

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world! — Roger Bacon

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — E.B. White

given them information in the past, they've turned it over to government authorities, and the information — Scott Pratt

Without any appeal to books, to laws, or to authorities of any kind, it was enough to accept God as a father, to regard slavery as a crime. I — Frederick Douglass

We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He — Shane Claiborne

If you have problems with your earthly authorities it may be probably because you have not been praying enough for your leaders — Sunday Adelaja

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour. — Bassem Youssef

Sure, swing your oscillating dick over there, and see how long you last before she runs screaming for the authorities. — J.A. Belfield

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. — Franjo Tudjman

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone. — Evgeny Morozov

true church, whilst the authorities appeared ever more indulgent to the unChristian pastimes — Tristram Hunt

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. — Thomas Jefferson

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied. — M. Beddow Bayly

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars. — Billy Graham

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. — Ruud Gullit

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. — Voltaire

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens. — Walter Benjamin

They had a relaxed look about them, appropriate for people going to a peaceful demonstration sanctioned by the authorities. — Naguib Mahfouz

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. — Bertrand Russell

I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy. — Charles Darwin

If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives. — Marsha Blackburn

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. — Alain Robert

What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime. — Enrique Pena Nieto

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior. — Joseph Joubert

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away. — Martin Luther

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed. — Jackie Chan

A good leader is known by 'his qualities' not 'his authorities'. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. — Gijs De Vries

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. — William Ralph Inge

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities. — Katharina Zell

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. — Mahmoud Abbas

All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters — Franz Kafka

When Jesus talks about conflict with "principalities and powers," he's talking about conflict with legal and political authorities. — Richard Beck

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives. — Sam Keen

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders. — John Culberson

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. — Lisa Yuskavage

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes. — Robert Peel

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see. — Adrienne Rich

Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. — Cyril Connolly

As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent. — Thomas Moore

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day
until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters. — Ambrose Bierce

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities. — Thomas Moore

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. — Laozi

Authorities tend to frown on things they can't fit into a neat little box. — Tera Lynn Childs

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend. — Kenny Cunningham

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. — Alva Myrdal

Authorities often exploit their subordinates for their own benefit while believing they are perfectly just. — Jonathan Haidt

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow — Henry Paulson

We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn't try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing. — Andrzej Sapkowski

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. — Barton Gellman

The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities. — George P. Bush

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities? — George Phillips Bond

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity. — Gideon Gono

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims. — Robert Spencer

The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you — Christopher Hitchens

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong. — Samuel Butler

To be free to achieve our most cherished goals we need authorities we can trust, assent to, and make our own. — R. R. Reno

The authorities aren't always up to the job. — Bill Roorbach

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The room is in shocked silence. Can this really be true? Can the authorities kill off everyone at the press of a button? — Siobhan Davis

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around. — Leigh Newman

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible. — Nelson Mandela

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities. — Rand Paul