Authority Quote by Mike Lofgren

When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point…

— Lucy Corin

“He who would be free,’ says a fine thinker, ‘must not conform.’  And authority, by bribing people to conform, produces a very gross kind…

— Oscar Wilde

...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the…

— Criss Jami

“you are the authority figure in your life.”

— Martha N. Beck

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

— Denis Leary

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased.…

— Stephen Colbert

After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want…

— Keith Stanfield

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

— Kelley Armstrong

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's…

— Denis Leary

When coronavirus first arrived in the U.K., the libertine instincts of our Woosterish Prime Minister seemed out of place. People wanted the reassurance of…

— Nick Boles

At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk, and they…

— Wyatt Cenac

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a…

— Stephen King