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Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Absolute Acceptance Always Authority Because Bishops Cannot Commands Express Feel His Latter Loyalty May Often Pope Presented Roman Sting Teaching Tests Themselves

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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

~Euripides

Topics: Accustomed Authority Faces More New Than

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Authority is never without hate.

~Euripides

Topics: Authority Hate Never Without

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The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Act Authority Blessing Carries Equally God Great Holding Name Obligations Power Priesthood Privilege Responsibilities Which

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Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Above Against Authority Disobedience Essentially Fact God Hates He Him His Leader Over Parent Person Position Power Priesthood Proud Someone Struggle Teacher Thinks Ultimately Us

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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

~Federica Montseny

Topics: Always Attempt Authority Constantly Make Remains Smaller Something Which

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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

~Federico Fellini

Topics: Authority Because Charisma Charm Cinema Disappeared Dream Dreamt Eyes Habit Held Hypnotic Image Longer Lost Once Open Our Possesses Public Us

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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Authority Legal Most Muslim Muslim World Today Well-Known Whole World

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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

~Ferdinand Marcos

Topics: Alienated Authority Before Countries Exist Government Intellectuals Limited Mercy Scarce Students Supply Those Where

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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Actual Authority Beyond Feared Great Make Matter Others Over Resources Rightly Used Will You Your

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