Authority Quote by Dean Acheson

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

— Malcolm Forbes

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

— Stanley Milgram

The highest duty is to respect authority

— Anonymous

Taking responsibility is the source of authority.

— Yoav Gallant

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the…

— Randy Lerner

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

— Toni Morrison

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed…

— Elena Kagan

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

— Ariel Dorfman

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

— Oscar Wilde

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority”

— Miles Anthony Smith