Authority Quotes

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Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force.… — Peter Drucker
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new… — George W. Bush
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if… — Edward Abbey
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.… — Edward Abbey
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration… — Thomas Jefferson
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. — Alexander Hamilton
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is… — Alexander Hamilton
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable â€¦ A representative democracy, where the right of election is well… — Alexander Hamilton
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I… — James Madison
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of… — James Madison
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. — Randall Munroe
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an… — Lincoln Steffens
The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the… — Willy Brandt
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. — Charles de Gaulle
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,… — Carl Rogers
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer

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