Freedom Quote by Daryl Gates

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

— Banksy

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

— James Hunter

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted…

— Parker J. Palmer

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

— Anton Yelchin

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

— Robert Greene

Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively…

— Jean Vanier

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona,…

— Patrick O'Brian

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

— Bob Dylan

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation…

— Erich Fromm