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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
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
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. – Bryant McGill
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. – Doctor Who
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
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. – Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. – Albert Einstein
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. – Sophocles
Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. – Noam Chomsky
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. – R Chamberlain
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. – Frank A. Clark
A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. – Henry Louis Mencken
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. – Brendan Francis
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. – Mark Twain
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. – Leonardo DaVinci
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit. – Butler
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. – M.K. Ataturk
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
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
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. – The Buddha
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. – Daniel Webster
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty. – Margaret Hilda Thatcher

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