Authority Quotes

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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
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
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
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
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
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
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
I cannot stand authority. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
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
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. — Joseph Addison
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
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
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
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
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis

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