Art Quote by Francis Bacon

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority

— Yugoslavian Proverb

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men…

— William Temple

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

— Richard Sennett

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to…

— Herman Kahn

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

— Anonymous

There is no authority but yourself.

— Rick Remender

“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more…

— Antonin Sertillanges

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson