Authority Quote by John Dryden

“The majority of men is composed of two classes, for neither of which would this be at all a befitting resolution: in the first…

— René Descartes

“It is eminently reasonable that men should seek to associate with those who share their convictions and values. It is impossible to deal or…

— Ayn Rand

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

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

— William Hurrell Mallock

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

— Sun Tzu

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

— Robert Greene

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

— Walter Lippmann

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

— Aristotle