Noun
of Authority
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Bertrand Russell
We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves. John Prescott
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. Jorge Luis Borges
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy? Robert Todd Carroll
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. Dorothy Day
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. Nikolai Gogol