I'm the Princess of The Authority.

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

— Polybius

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s…

— Cliff James

“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those…

— Derrick Jensen

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for…

— Peter Drucker

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

— Linda Hunt

“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“This world is indeed of our ownership, but the authority (over it) is not received. However much cleansing one accomplishes, that is how much…

— Dada Bhagwan

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

— Stanley Milgram

“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an…

— Erica Goros

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal

“Often, she was a princess because they were her stories and she wanted to be a princess.”

— C.J. Brightley