Authority Quote by Anonymous

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of…

— Arthur Balfour

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

— Bill Cosby

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

— Daniel Ellsberg

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

— John Ortberg

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men…

— William Temple

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

— Fiona Bruce

I've never been any good with authority.

— Rupert Everett

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

— L. Neil Smith

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

— A. C. Benson

There can be no more reliable authority on earth than God's Word, the Bible. This timeless, trustworthy source of truth holds the key that…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority…

— Rupert Everett

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such…

— Mikhail Bakunin