Abandoned Quote by Anonymous

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and…

— Federica Montseny

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

— James Hunter

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

— William P. Young

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance…

— George Carlin

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

— James Cromwell

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government…

— Ferdinand Marcos

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

— Anonymous

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and…

— Joe Strummer

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

— Thomas Huxley

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

— Richard Sennett