Famous Authority Quotes - Famous Quotes about Authority
All authority belongs to the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
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All authority is quite degrading.
- Oscar Wilde
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Vita Sackville-West
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Authority is never without hate.
- Euripides
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Authority is no stronger than the man who wields it.
- Dolores E. McGuire
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Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
- Erich Fromm
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
- Anne Bradstreet
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley
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He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
- Terence
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
- James Russell Lowell
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I don't like authority. At least I don't like other people's authority.
- A. C. Benson
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
- Euripides
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
- Joseph Addison
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
- Sophocles
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The highest duty is to respect authority.
- Leo XIII
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The wisest have the most authority.
- Plato
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There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is intrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes canons of taste and value; it is virtually indistinguishable from certain ideas it dignifies as true, and from traditions, perceptions and judgments it forms, transmits, reproduces. Above all, authority can, indeed must, be analyzed.
- Edward Said
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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
- Aeschylus
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