Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black,… — Greg Gutfeld
If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out. — Kin Hubbard
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law… — Leo Tolstoy
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,… — Robert A. Heinlein
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom… — George Eliot
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of… — Sydney J. Harris
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from… — William Shakespeare
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an… — Ambrose Bierce
Honor is a harder master than the law. — Mark Twain
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. — Erich Fromm
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval… — Samuel Johnson
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... — Pablo Picasso
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. — Juvenal
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Obedience to authority saves many skins — Sophocles
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud
Experience is the highest authority. — Carl Rogers
The People adore authority. — Charles Baudelaire
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority. — Margaret Benson
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority. — Paul Tillich
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay. — Barack Obama
Convention is the ruler of all. — Pindar

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