Authority Quote by Anonymous

“Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission? If there is not, how can we account…

— Erich Fromm

“Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.”

— Deborah Smith Pegues

Our submission defines our authority

— Bradley Cooper

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

— Myles Munroe

When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor…

— Maya Banks

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

— Dorothy Day

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

— L. Tom Perry

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is…

— Philippa Gregory

Obedience is a hard profession.

— Pierre Corneille

“Be submissive to one another.' By this phrase, the idea of hierarchy -- that one has authority over another -- is completely eliminated. If…

— Henry Hon

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to…

— Herman Kahn