Authority Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

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

— Oscar Wilde

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

— Rick Wilson

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

— William P. Young

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule…

— David Icke

Authority is quite degrading.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

— Tom Robbins

“fight authority with authority,”

— Banana Yoshimoto

All authority belongs to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

“authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the…

— Noam Chomsky