Authority Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

— A.J. Ayer

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

— Stephen Covey

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”

— Richie Norton

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

— Walter Lippmann

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

— Masha Gessen

The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record…

— Anonymous

Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he…

— Stanley Milgram

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

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply…

— Slavoj Žižek

“in the field of ethics, of moral knowledge, it was approached by Kant with his principle of autonomy. This principle expresses his realization that…

— Karl Popper

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to…

— Pope John XXIII