“At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.” DifferentWantedSchoolFatherAuthority Author:John Leguizamo
“All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.” WantDifferentDoneFiguresAuthorityWant SomethingPartingAuthority Figures Author:Yaphet Kotto
“[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.” KindDifferentSchoolCollegeAuthorityCuriosityDifferent Kinds Author:Steve Jobs
“When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.” PeopleDifferentDivineAuthorityAbsolutesDifferent PeoplesComprehending Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.” FeelsMeanPersonsDifferentBigsAbleMovingParentAuthorityAppreciateMatureSmarterTurning PointsPoints In Life Author:Ryan Sheckler
“In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.” GivingKindMayArtDifferentUsePastCultureBeliefAuthorityJokesPopsCampsDifferent KindsGesturesSixtyCompelledAltarsPop CultureRecyclingSatiricalZestLarger Than LifePop ArtShorthand Author:Pauline Kael
“Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.” WellsPersonsDoeDifferentSeemsActionLosesActingMoralFocusAuthorityStandardsExpectationsConscienceConcernBeing TrueAcquireConsiderationSentiments Author:Stanley Milgram
“The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.” IfsKindDoeDifferentCharacterGodPoliticalUniverseSupportCreativeExerciseAuthorityTyrannyServantDifferent KindsGovernorsJudicialServant Of GodJudicial Power Book:Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography Source: Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography
“I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.” ThinkingWayFirstsDoeDifferentCountryHouseCommonSupportAmountFitAuthorityVoteBottomStartingPrioritiesCommon SenseBudgetsProcedures Author:Millicent Fenwick
“There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.” PeopleWorldGivingTwoDifferentEndsSeemsCoursesHeavenNationsInterestCommonHalfDestinyUnited StatesArmsAuthorityInstrumentsStartingAccomplishCommon SenseFormerRelyLatterPrincipalGlobesScopeStarting PointServitudeExertionGreat NationsPresent TimeRely UponPersonal Interest Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.” PeopleDifferentReasonPositionAuthorityDifferent ThingsRegulationDominationRules And Regulations Author:James Cromwell
“Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.” TryingChildrenLittlesDifferentPlayTodaySocialParentResultsDealsTeacherPlayerSharePositionTelevisionMetsAuthorityTasksDoctorsWorkersContraryProducersScoreMultitudesOrchestraHelplessnessInferiorityConductorSocial WorkerMaestro Author:Kenneth Keniston
“Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.” LongDifferentCareTermInterestResponsibilityEnvironmentEconomicPerspectiveIndustryAuthorityResourcesWorkersDevelopingLong TermFarmersTibetanDifferent PerspectiveNomadConservingSafeguardingAuthority And Responsibility Author:Dalai Lama
“No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.” IfsMayDifferentWarStatesGovernmentDesireValuesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryMovementIntegrityAuthorityConstitutionCongressPreservesDepartmentConquestRemarksProvisionPeace WarNo WarConstitution Of The United States Author:Daniel Webster
“Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.” MenDifferentChristianityCasesAtheismEventsProveAuthorityFellowsPositive AtheismArguingObedienceFellow ManCrusadesInquisitionGenevaObedience To Authority Author:Andrew Bernstein
“Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.” PeopleThinkingDifferentWholeCrazyPositionAuthorityBunchRemoveDifferent Peoples Author:David Hyde Pierce
“Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.” IfsDoeDifferentMatterMightGivenTomorrowTruth IsAuthorityAbsolutesEtiquettePersuasive Author:David F. Wells
“Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.” ShouldArtDifferentPoliticalPossibilityPerspectiveAuthorityMessagesComplexesLayersAdvertisementsDifferent Perspective Author:Camille Henrot
“Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentSchoolAuthorityComplexesCome UpDetailsFrameworkThink For Yourself Author:Joichi Ito
“I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.” WantGivingWritingKindBookDifferentAuthorityDifferent KindsOverratedPowerlessness Author:Matthew Specktor
“There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.” PeopleWorldDifferentMomentsChallengesLevelsAuthorityIslamGood Moments Author:Tariq Ali
“My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for there to be a [central authority] controlling the schools. They are in more than 100 countries, and there must be many different companies that have opened and run them.” Has BeensDifferentCountryRunningSchoolCompanyRolesImpossibleAuthorityOpening Author:Fethullah Gulen
“Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.” WritingDifferentAmericaTrumpAuthorityLike MeThemeMidnightGloomyBleakAuthority And Power Author:Mark Shields
“Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.” PeopleMayMeanDifferentGroupsExampleParticularAuthorityAcceptedDifferent ThingsTruthfulDocumentsIgnoredDifferent Peoples Author:D. A. Carson
“When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human authors, nevertheless is God breathed and is revealed by God and is utterly reliable and all that it says, with all of its different literary genres, it's trustworthy and without mistake or distortion. It is trustworthy and therefore, because it is from God it has God's authority.” BelieveHumansDifferentChristianSpeakMistakeAuthorityScriptureGenreNeverthelessTrustworthyDistortionLiterary Genre Author:D. A. Carson
“I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover. There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.” PeopleWayMayBookDifferentChristianAuthorityPagesResourcesDown AndEndureScriptureSuspectsCoveredVolumeSectionsTheological Author:D. A. Carson
“Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.” DifferentGivenAuthorityTraditionWeightCarrieTestamentNew TestamentHebrewHebrew Bible Author:Frank Moore Cross
“A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn't even authorized by law. It's just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan's signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was that all of a sudden these massive, behemoth companies realized their data centers - sending hundreds of millions of people's communications back and forth every day - were completely unprotected, electronically naked.” PeopleHas BeensDifferentUseLawOrderCompanyMillionsPiecesHappenedCommunicationCoupleAuthorityPaperNakedAssDataErasCollectionsExecutivesMassiveBack And ForthSignaturesExecutive OrdersBehemothData Centers Author:Edward Snowden
“If you look at the New York Times, it says X; if you look at the Washington Post, it says the same thing. And if you turn on any television newscast it's the same thing you already heard, that's research. And that's one of the ways it's done. Authority ends up being imputed simply because of volume. I mean, all of these different news organizations reporting the exact same thing.” IfsWayLooksMeanDifferentEndsDoneTurnsHeardNew YorkTelevisionAuthorityNewsResearchOrganizationPostsVolumeTurn-onNew York Times Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The globalists, the establishment, they think America isn't particularly exceptional and should be no different than any other state in the world, subject to whatever a global authority might say, the United Nations, for example. Donald Trump doesn't think that, nor do I.” ThinkingWorldShouldDifferentStatesMightAmericaNationsUnitedSubjectsExampleTrumpAuthorityEstablishmentUnited NationsExceptional Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.” KnowsFeelsYearsI CanDifferentSpeakProductsAuthority Author:June Diane Raphael
“I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to say: Our complete agenda is to be enacted into laws governing the entire society. Many different religious groups claim that authority, not only Catholics. A lot of different Protestant groups as well are stepping forward to say: Here is our agenda, it is a moral agenda, ergo it must be enacted into law. I think that the distinction between natural law and more ultimate kinds of doctrine is being lost.” ThinkingKindDifferentNaturalReligiousForgetMoralAuthorityUltimateCatholicUnfortunateNatural Law Author:Bruce Babbitt
“The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of '68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.” PeopleChildrenImportantDifferentMomentsParentChangedAuthorityFeministFeminist Movement Author:Bernardo Bertolucci
“It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of Russian society that have differing points of view. And besides, a united opposition is a nice big target that the authorities have a much easier time fighting. And besides, resisting an authoritarian regime with an authoritarian opposition merely means that, in the event of victory, you're just doing yet another round of the same old, same old.” TryingMeanDifferentFightingNiceVictoryAuthorityStrategyPoint Of View Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.” PeopleBookDifferentAuthorityArgumentArguingDiscussionPhilip Author:Charlie Kaufman
“It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.” PeopleThinkingLongDifferentFactsUsedFightingAcceptingOpinionSourceAuthorityUsed To BeTrailsCredibilityDifferent Opinions Author:Rachel Maddow
“China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.” TwoDifferentMovingAttitudeOpinionAuthorityCriticismChinaChineseSurveillanceOften IsCensoredDifferent Attitude Author:Ai Weiwei