Authority Quote by Mike Lofgren

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very…

— Robert Greene

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

Authority figures always attract trouble

— Anonymous

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

— Emma Goldman

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer…

— Charles D. Hayes

People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

— Anna Holmes

Power people are generally threatened by authority people...

— James Hunter

“In the democratic, egalitarian spirit of our day, we hold in suspicion positions of social authority, yet we submit to the power of peers.…

— Mark Sayers

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms…

— Maria Konnikova