Authority Quotes

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...

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authorit...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to s...

Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the...

In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, whic...

You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of...

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not con...

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk ro...

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show o...

I think you are wrong, partner Elijah. My briefing on human characteristics here among the people of...

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon ...

those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and sil...

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandest...

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge ...

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he make...

To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the wh...

There is no method of self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some ...

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of a...

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security...

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my ac...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered ...

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the In...

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of...

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, ...

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...