Authority Quotes
2019 quotes by 1359 authors
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
— Martha Beck
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
— Joseph Addison
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
— Joseph Addison
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
— Robert Benchley
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
— Kate Adie
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
— Warren G. Bennis
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