Authority Quote by Billy Bragg

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

— Robert Greene

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.”

— Jonathan Haidt

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude…

— Rudolf Rocker

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

— Kay Granger

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

— John Henrik Clarke

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and…

— Sigmund Freud

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

— Herbert Spencer

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found…

— Thomas Jefferson

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts…

— Amartya Sen

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek