Authority Quote by Bret Stephens

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

— James Cromwell

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

— Virginia Postrel

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

— James Hunter

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 can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not…

— D. A. Carson

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.

— Johnny Hunt

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

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who…

— Seth Godin

All authority comes from the people.

— Michael Davies

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

— Rob Payne

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid…

— Anonymous