Authority Quotes

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just u...

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and...

...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav...

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren't given permission to pass it on as you see fit.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignti...

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authori...

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and dominat...

Modern industrial civilisation has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The drivin...

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden...

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it...

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorp...

I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a po...

Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. ...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it posses...

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving expe...

As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 ...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of openin...

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an exc...

We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there w...

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can ...

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe...

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is...

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to d...

There is no higher authority.

My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, an...

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is...

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have t...

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can be...

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because anot...

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregar...

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly ...

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

All authority belongs to the people.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--wh...

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not ...

The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weak...

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its or...

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins tha...

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material po...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Red...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchi...

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, sinc...

The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot b...

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. Tha...

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous indiv...

Don't be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them becau...

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linkin...

One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." (Scientists, being...

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will...

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which ...

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority...

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't ope...

I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there...

A good general rule is that one should seek to be loved by one’s peers—one’s spouse and one’s friend...

The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thou...

Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression “it turns out” to be incredibly useful? It allows...

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect ...

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safegua...

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any s...

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities...

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best,...

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight an...

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in ...

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) Th...