Authority Quote by Austin O'Malley

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

— Confucius

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

— Confucius

When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group.…

— Stanley Milgram

“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more…

— Antonin Sertillanges

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

— Adolf Hitler

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.”

— Steven Erikson

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

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

— Jane Austen