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Authority Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those…
- Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
- Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and…
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Authority Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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… — 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… — Russell Baker
- Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — 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… — Samuel Adams
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison