Deconstruction Quote by Barbara Johnson

“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

“Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.”

— Watchman Nee

“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and…

— Dante L. Germino

“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Authority is something that must be granted. As soon as people stop giving it, authority simply disappears. All they have to do is turn…

— Erica Verrillo

“Authority is first and foremost based on reason.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The prerequisite for being in authority is recognizing that one is always under authority.”

— Joe Rigney

“Influence always outpaces authority.”

— Clay Scroggins

“The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.”

— Virginia Woolf

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

“This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.”

— Frans de Waal

“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…”

— John Geddes