Authority Quote by Richard Hooker

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having…

— Richard Hooker

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

— Richard Sennett

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the…

— Abraham Myerson

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

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

— Erich Maria Remarque

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

— Nancy Pearcey

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid…

— Anonymous

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

— 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

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