Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many… — David Boaz
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness. — Carlo Wolff
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… — Michel de Montaigne
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… — Michel de Montaigne
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that… — Virginia Woolf
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. — Mencius
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily… — Muriel Spark
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting… — Craig Claiborne
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority. — George Will
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E L Doctorow
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:… — Albert Einstein
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated… — Haim Ginott
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. — Samuel Johnson
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's… — George Santayana
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? — Juvenal
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are… — George Washington
If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance. — Epictetus
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to… — Joseph Campbell
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a… — Ronald Reagan

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