Best authority & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.”

Done Moments Political Lost Speak Teacher Society Limits Authority Educator Learners Lawlessness

Author:Paulo Freire

“It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.”

Men Needs States Use Speak Voice Prayer He Man Authority Paid Knees Wrestling Shallow Restless Prevailing Clamor Stingy Prevailing Prayer

Book:Blood, Bread and Fire:: The Christian’s Threefold Experience

Source: Blood, Bread and Fire:: The Christian’s Threefold Experience

“I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.”

Writing Speak Careers Growing Authority Hopefully Hung Growing Old

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.”

Thinking Men Persons Use Speak Language Causes Teach Produce Masters Depends Authority Increase Noble Followers Loyal Inclination

Author:Thomas Szasz

“You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.”

People Way Looks Children Character Eye Speak Given Parent Results Demand Authority Stress Angry Reactions Back When Good Character

Author:Roy Masters

“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.”

“We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.”

Men Speak Cases Ready Arms Authority Silent Command Apostles

Author:Martin Niemoller

“If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.”

“The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.”

States Form Speak Church Silence Authority Elements Logic Raised Architecture Multitudes Majesty Palaces Monument Church And State Cathedrals Dams Shady

Author:Georges Bataille

“We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.”

Believe Country Running Speak Levels Deals Authority Currents Refuse Mandates Ukrainian

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out.”

Giving Action Speak President Doubt Military Demand Authority Constitution Congress Iraq No Doubt Fund Justification Troops Speaks Out Military Action Escalation Troops In Iraq

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.”

People Way Humans Reason Spiritual Speak Natural Human Beings Known Knowing Authority Capable Deny Idealism Sensory Natural Science

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.”

Wells Play Today Speak Tomorrow Authority Golf Great Author

Author:Gary Player

“Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.”

Speak Deals Subjects Crime Goes On Authority Stopping Approved Fiji Remarriage

Book:My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line

Source: My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line

“So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.”

Giving Believe Persons Doe Shows Dream Speak Sides Forget Situation Authority Conscious Absolutes Unconscious Speak The Truth Reminding

Author:Frances G. Wickes

“For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.”

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!”

“Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.”

Ifs Lying Speak Authority

Author:Anton Chekhov

“In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.”

Source: Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery

“You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.”

Looks Desire Speak Lord Authority Empty Angry Asceticism Bidding Empty Words

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.”

Thinking Speak Term Rights Duty Authority Granted Rights And Duties

Author:Laurance Labadie

“Be yourself. Don't pretend that you know something you don't. Don't create the appearance of fake authority. Speak about the things you really care about.”

Knows Care Speak Authority Appearance Fake Being Yourself

Author:Agnieszka Holland

“Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.”

Speak Perspective Authority Eternal Absolutes Finals

Book:Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.”

Way Writing Wanted Speak Language Knowing Authority Decided

Author:Gail Simmons

“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.”

“Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to speak their mind without fear of arrest is palpable. But nearly seven years after authorities crushed massive street protests, reformers are still threatened with arrest and expectations for change are extremely low.”

“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.”

Believe Humans Different Christian Speak Mistake Authority Scripture Genre Nevertheless Trustworthy Distortion Literary Genre

Author:D. A. Carson

“For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free”

Jobs Speak Destiny Degrees Authority Despise Jealously

Author:Bob Dylan

“I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.”

Knows Wells I Can Speak Authority

Author:Bob Hawke

“Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.”

Play Character Speak Fun Stupid Authority

Author:Alan Tudyk

“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.”

Knows Feels Years I Can Different Speak Products Authority

Author:June Diane Raphael

“I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock 'n' roll go hand in hand. There is a `question authority,' `don't be afraid to break the rules' quality that whether you're a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there's something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care what you think.”

Thinking Trying Kind Feelings Care Speak Parent Quality Break Authority Longing Piracy

Author:Gore Verbinski

“A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the self. Over the years, my poems have stretched out, grown broader and grander. The intervening years of living and aging - with their portions of tragedy, triumph, and shipwreck - have earned me both the authority and the necessity to write on a cosmic scale.”

Writing Speak Authority Tragedy Aging Cosmic Shipwreck

Author:Robin Beth Schaer

“I think the desire to be a journalist started post-911. I'm Syrian American. I speak fluent Arabic. I'd come back to the States for college. I went to Skidmore in upstate New York. I was coming from Turkey, and I'd noticed that I could talk about concepts and ideas and people who seemed foreign to Americans, and they were interested in what I had to say. I think some of it is maybe because I'm very unassuming and I look American, but I'm very much from there as well so I can speak with authority about all of these issues.”

People Thinking Desire Speak College Authority Journalist

Author:Arwa Damon

“To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.”

Needs Doe Facts Action Faces Speak Force Peace Situation Accepting Nice Effects Authority Conscience Violent Being Nice Resorts Meek Petitions New Situations

Author:Barbara Deming

“Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.”

Action Speak Strong Silence Virtue Wise Strength Pride Fool Proud Demand Authority Weak Humble Concentration Modesty Refuge Silence Is Prudence

Book:The Edge of the Sword

Source: The Edge of the Sword

“You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.”

People Ifs Men May Doe Speak Plans Honest Honesty Amount Authority Salvation Honorable Dishonesty Priesthood Honest People Not Honest Honorable Man Plan Of Salvation

Author:George Q. Cannon

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