Authority Quote by Juvenal

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

— Erich Fromm

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

— Emma Goldman

“recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from “good families.”

— Marcus Aurelius

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Authority figures always attract trouble

— Anonymous

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

— George Herbert

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

— Samuel Johnson

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

— Philip Sidney

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

— Oscar Wilde

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

— Alexander Pope

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson