Authority Quote by Mark Twain

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: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

— James Hunter

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and…

— Federica Montseny

“I understand the need for conformity. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense.…

— David Thorne

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of…

— Arthur Balfour

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

— Karel Reisz

When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the…

— Courtney A. Kemp

“On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism”

— Yahya Mohamed

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

To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error…

— Josiah Warren