Authority Quotes · Page 2

Be the authority of your success.

— Lucas Hunter

I have an authority problem.

— Lena Dunham

Always question the authority.

— Tom Morello

I really rebel against authority.

— Mariah Carey

Authority forgets a dying king.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I cannot stand authority.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I hate authority.

— John Mearsheimer

Authority is no source for Truth.

— Aristotle

Obedience to authority saves many skins

— Sophocles

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

— Studs Terkel

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

— Pink

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

— Seneca the Younger

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“What matters is not who says it, but what is being said.”

— Jesaja Senones

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

— Peter Ueberroth

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

— Frank A. Clark

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

— Mr. T

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

— Andy Stanley

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

— Anne Bradstreet

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

— Saint Augustine

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

— Malcolm Forbes

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

— Anonymous

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…

— Robert Fisk

“Authority is the source of knowledge, but the reason of mankind is the norm by which all authority is judged. Eóin, the…

— Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always…

— Michel de Montaigne

This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can…

— Sigmund Freud

I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say…

— Meg Cabot

“You are the steer of your God given dreams. By the authority from the Holy Spirit of God, you will able to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

— Stephen Colbert

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate…

— Katherine Applegate

“others, without further ceremony ascribing to the strongest an authority over the weakest, have immediately struck out government, without thinking of the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to…

— Thomas Huxley

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary…

— Adam Smith

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering…

— Anonymous

The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under…

— John Calvin

The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a…

— Gouverneur Morris

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence…

— Jack McDevitt