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"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." »Albert Einstein
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"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
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"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
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"If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority." »Yugoslav Proverb
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"No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do." »Karin Ireland
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"You can delegate authority, but not responsibility." »Stephen W. Comiskey
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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once." »Frank A. Clark
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"Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." »Doctor Who
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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience." »Thomas Haliburton
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"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth." »Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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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"No moral system can rest solely on authority." »A. J. Ayer
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"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." »Leonardo da Vinci
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"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." »Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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"A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"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
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." »Stanley Milgram
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"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime." »Emma Goldman
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"A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof." »R Chamberlain
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"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." »Mark Twain
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley
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"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
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"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
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"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever." »G. K. Chesterton
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis
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"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
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton
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