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Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue . . . let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce
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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

George Carlin
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. -Albert Einstein
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Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.

Teresa Stover
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Robert E. Lee
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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. -Thomas C. Haliburton
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The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.

David Tracy
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Bill Gates
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The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government. -Stanley Milgram
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes; once so defined, they are unable to break free.

Stanley Milgram
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. -Thomas Hobbes
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I don't know what qualifies this guy to even think he's an authority of prisons.

Steve Kenneway
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One authority, one weapon.

Mahmoud Zahar
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Consumers have a lot more authority. -Bob Iger
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I guess all things have to end, and they ended (the scoreless stretch) with authority.

Bryan Henry
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Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Doctor Who
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We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate. -William Webster
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She does have to look to the authority figures around her and glean what to do.

Jonathan Crisp
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The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Austin O'Malley
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If there was one thing I could see put behind us right now, it is the controversy at the housing authority. -Robert Barnett
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This authority and myself would not want to discriminate against anybody.

Tom Mason
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

Yugoslav Proverb
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We gave you the authority to go after those who came after us. -Max Cleland
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The airport authority is optimistic it will be constructed.

Bruce Frallic
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I will use my right to appeal before a higher authority.

Sesil Karatantcheva
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We don't want to take the role of the Palestinian Authority. -Shlomo Dror
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She can really rip the ball with authority to all fields.

Allison Maire
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer
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It's just not within their authority. -Gary Ratcliff
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