Authority Quote by Kay Hooper

“If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It’s the knowing when that’s important.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the most creative…

— Kenneth Cole

“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind,…

— Seanan McGuire

“Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break…

— Dan Pearce

“Throw away the rule book and create your own.”

— Sandra Bellamy

“Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive…

— Richard Dawkins

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole…

— Maimonides

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

— Marilyn Ferguson

“Rules are a useful guideline and generally should be heeded, but blindly following them eventually and inevitably leads to disaster.”

— Anonymous

“I always feel it’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.”

— T.S. Eliot

“When making rules, explain the principles behind them.”

— Ray Dalio

“[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation for the…

— Alan W. Watts