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Authority is never without hate. -- Euripides
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law -- Thomas Hobbes
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -- Ken Blanchard
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -- George Carlin
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. -- John Adams
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. -- Galileo Galilei
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde
Authority. The antithesis of science. -- Stephen Baxter
Authority figures always attract trouble -- J. K. Rowling
Authority forgets a dying king. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Authority does not equal competency. -- Andy Stanley
Authority forgets a dying king -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Authority and example lead the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Authority is no source for Truth. -- Aristotle
Think for yourself and question authority. -- Timothy Leary
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. -- Lech Walesa
Authority is conferred by position, not character. -- Mason Cooley
Authority is always built on service and sacrifice. -- James Hunter
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. -- Vladimir Lenin
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. -- Vladimir Lenin
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination. -- Richard Sennett
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. -- Euripides
Authority to heal is given from on high. -- Ernest Angley
Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it! -- Peter Ueberroth
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. -- Charles de Gaulle
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. -- Seneca the Younger
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer. -- Rand Paul
Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away. -- James Hunter
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. -- Thomas Hobbes
Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you. -- Rob Payne
Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship. -- Johnny Hunt
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. -- Robert E. Lee
When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. -- Benjamin Tucker
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. -- James Cromwell
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. -- Benjamin Franklin
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force. -- Lord Acton
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. -- Zebulon Pike
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd. -- William Penn
Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer. -- John J. Geddes
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers). -- Malcolm Forbes
Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives. -- Johnny Hunt
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. -- Dalai Lama
Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them. -- Andy Stanley
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. -- Moshe Katsav
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. -- James Dobson
Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception -- Brandon Sanderson
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -- Voltaire
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. -- Anne Bradstreet
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. -- Anne Bradstreet
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. -- Stanley Milgram
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. -- James Hunter
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. -- Anne Bradstreet
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. -- John Charles Polanyi
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. -- Alan Moore
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. -- Plutarch
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. -- Robert M. Lindner
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. -- Robert M. Lindner
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. -- Vernon Jordan
Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want. -- James Hetfield
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. -- Gerald Massey
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. -- Albert Einstein
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. -- Henry Steele Commager
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. -- Hannah Arendt
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. -- Bill Cosby
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence. -- Anthony Bourdain
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. -- Ronald Reagan
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. -- Jim Morrison
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws -- Teresa Stover
The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism -- David Tracy
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. -- Arleigh Burke
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. -- Stephen Covey
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. -- Vince Lombardi
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much -- Francis Bacon, Sr.
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. -- Mahmoud Abbas
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. -- Joseph Addison
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. -- Tupac Shakur
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. -- Shakti Gawain
The single most important thing that anyone can do in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, with the right authority -- Bruce R. McConkie
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
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government -- Stanley Milgram
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy -- Dame Edith Sitwell
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. -- Boris Johnson
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered -- Samuel Johnson
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation! -- Joyce Meyer
Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks -- Bob Dylan
The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes once so defined, they are unable to break free -- Stanley Milgram
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. -- Jimmy Carter
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. -- David A. Bednar
I cannot stand authority. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
The People adore authority. -- Charles Baudelaire
No controlling legal authority -- Al Gore
Always question the authority. -- Tom Morello
I really rebel against authority. -- Mariah Carey
Art made tongue-tied by authority. -- William Shakespeare
Respect authority while questioning it. -- Randy Pausch
Power without authority is tyranny. -- Jacques Maritain
Our submission defines our authority -- Bradley Cooper
Experience is the highest authority. -- Carl Rogers
Mouths talk without authority sometimes ... -- Caroline Pafford Miller
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self-possession is the backbone of authority. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak -- Tim Field
Obedience to authority saves many skins -- Sophocles
I've always had trouble with authority. -- John Milius
All authority belongs to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no authority but yourself. -- Rick Remender
All authority comes from the people. -- Michael Davies

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