| "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." »Albert Einstein |
| "Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." »Peter Drucker |
| "There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power." »Angel Blessing |
| "No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do." »Karin Ireland |
| "A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once." »Frank A. Clark |
| "If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority." »Yugoslav Proverb |
| "Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth." »Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| "The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience." »Thomas Haliburton |
| "No moral system can rest solely on authority." »A. J. Ayer |
| "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory." »Leonardo DaVinci |
| "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." »Kenneth Hartley Blanchard |
| "Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority." »Sophocles |
| "The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime." »Emma Goldman |
| "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." »Stanley Milgram |
| "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley |
| "One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun." »Elmer Davis |
| "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." »Mark Twain |
| "Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it." »Albert Einstein |
| "A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis |
| "It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying." »Virginia |
| "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." »Marlene Dietrich |
| "Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen." »Robert Anson Heinlein |
| "A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
| "Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it." »William Penn |
| "I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." »William Frank Buckley, Jr. |
| "Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens." »Menachem Begin |
| "Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." »Cicero |
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