Authority Quotes

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All authority belongs to the people. — Thomas Jefferson
Art made tongue-tied by authority. — William Shakespeare
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. — Vladimir Lenin
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... — Eleanor Roosevelt
You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have… — George Q. Cannon
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I… — Maurice Blanchot
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. — Orson Scott Card
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...… — Frank I. Cobb
To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient.… — Chuck Palahniuk
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time… — Dee Hock
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right… — Walter E. Williams
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not. — William James

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