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“The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.”

People Decision Teacher Teaching Position Authority Finals Ancient Jew Palestine Academy Resumes Successors Present Time Pharisees Jewish Religion

Author:Louis Finkelstein

“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.”

Ifs Want Believe Persons Enough Lying Politics Position Authority Ridiculous

Author:Derek R. Audette

“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.”

People Ideas Worry Position Authority Good Ideas Talkers

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.”

Position Needed Authority Our Society Accountability

Book:Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

Source: Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.”

People Able Decision Support Position Willing Needed Authority Our Society Accountability Surround

Book:Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

Source: Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

“If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.”

Ifs Looks May Night Pleasure Morning Position Taught Shapes Authority Despite Saturday Monday Taught Us Saturday Night Monday Morning Purposelessness Hedonist

Author:Clive Barker

“Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.”

Position Authority Pretending Hysterical

Book:Triton

Source: Triton

“The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.”

Years Lasts Fashion Position Authority Significant Balanced Judaism Moderates

Author:Ovadia Yosef

“Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.”

World States Might Energy Growth Effort Example Fields Position Depends Development Authority Scientist International Practicals Soviet Technicians Atomic Energy

Author:Vyacheslav Molotov

“Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.”

Ifs Believe Figures Position Authority Authority Figures

Author:Tucker Max

“True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.”

Choices Loses Moral Principles Position Authority Organization Universal Formal Timeless True Leader True Leadership Moral Authority Trust And Respect

Author:Stephen Covey

“This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.”

World Needs Use Young Gone Generations Modern Position Hair Authority Gray Bishops Razors Gray Hair Craze Headmasters

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.”

World Problem Girl Language Grows Sports Growing Up Position Authority News Cute Good News Describing Skater

Author:Anita DeFrantz

“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.”

Knows Men Needs Reason Whole Reality Christian Form Courses Accepting Taken Position Authority Areas Atheist Deny Thinker Great Thinkers

Author:Cornelius Van Til

“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.”

Way Hard Political Religious Leader Doubt Movement Position Authority Casts Revolutionary Rising Islamic Regimes Academic Tides Competence Khomeini

Author:Yousef Saanei

“Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.”

Knows Records Media Position Lucky Authority Crosses Phones Journalism Witness Officials Reporters Phone Calls Scrutinize Subpoenas

Author:Irving Kristol

“Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.”

People Want America Force Position Citizens Authority Helplessness American Citizens

Author:Ted Nugent

“... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.”

Ifs Men May States Politics Natural Position Theory Prove Authority Liberalism Enlightened Allies Establishment Monopoly Cautious Wielding Power

Author:Susan Sontag

“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.”

“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.”

People Different Reason Position Authority Different Things Regulation Domination Rules And Regulations

Author:James Cromwell

“Authority is conferred by position, not character.”

Character Position Authority

Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

“We need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with the laws of God so that we can bring those laws into effect.”

People Needs Government Law Sports Effects Media Position Authority Filled Medicine Entertainment

Author:Myles Munroe

“If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.”

Ifs Political Politics Economy Position Activity Authority Institutions Financial Tendencies Fringe Disruptive Constrain Financial Institutions

Author:Hyman Minsky

“Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.”

Leadership Influence Position Authority

Author:Johnny Hunt

“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.”

People Thinking Different Whole Crazy Position Authority Bunch Remove Different Peoples

Author:David Hyde Pierce

“Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.”

Way Sun Position Authority Instruments Devices Quotations Stolen Borrowed Rhetorical

Author:Justin Kaplan

“The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.”

Ifs Doe War Values Effort Issues Information Position Authority Program Access Nuclear Iran Justification Advancement Assessment Iranian Great Value Intelligence Services

Author:Trita Parsi

“A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.”

Important Quality Democracy Position Authority Congress Length Antidote Eminence American Democracy

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.”

Littles Dies Responsibility Position Authority Great Responsibility

Author:Dean Acheson

“Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.”

People Needs Causes Church Leader Position Authority Tasks Primaries Preaching

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.”

Knows Persons Doe Able Leader Know How Position Discipline Authority Rebel Bows Scorn Good Leader

Author:J. Oswald Sanders

“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”

People Want Feels Seems Artist Names Position Source Offers Authority Comfortable Function Range Priests Consolation Surrogates

Author:Alex Johnston

“Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.”

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Book:Leading Consciously

Source: Leading Consciously

“Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications.”

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Author:Peter Ferrara

“A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.”

People Needs Giving States Able Together President Ability United United States Plans Position Involved Authority Locals Plot Penetrate

Author:John Kasich

“Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.”

People Needs Littles Law Young Position Truth Is Skills Authority Law Enforcement Enforcement In-laws

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving personal empowerment is so important for them. These women are going to be holding positions of significant authority, owning more businesses, and shaping public policy.”

Thinking Important Today Young Challenges Powerful Greater Achieve Policy Position Authority Empowerment Significant Young Women Public Policy Personal Empowerment

Author:Mary Pope Osborne

“Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.”

Years Responsibility Careers Position Needed Circumstances Authority Significant Turnaround

Author:Kevin Allen

“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

Thinking Way Courses Accepting Example Position Like You Authority Prisoner Syndromes Submissive Pressured Stockholm

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated.”

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Author:Tori Amos

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