Often the words "authority" and "power" are used interchangeably. We do so when we call government officials "the authorities." Bu...t often again, authority and power are distinguished, as when we say that a government official lacked the authority to engage in some venture. In English the root of authority is "author"; the connotation is that authority involves something productive. Yet the word "authoritarian" is used to describe a person or system which is repressive.... Of authority it may be said in the most general way that it is an attempt to interpret the conditions of power, to give the conditions of control and influence a meaning by defining an image of strength. The quest is for a strength that is solid, guaranteed, stable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority,... Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have told my husband that if he denies women equality, I will be in the vanguard of women on the streets, protesting outside his... office in the new Palestinian state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over hi...s own body, but the wife does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out... to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. ...Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »