Authority Quote by Virginia Postrel

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

— Bill Cosby

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

— Max De Pree

Gradually, decentralized trust will be accepted as a new and effective trust model. We have seen this evolution of understanding before - on the…

— Andreas Antonopoulos

“Individuals are most likely to trust and cooperate freely with systems—whether they themselves win or lose by those systems—when fair process is observed.”

— Harvard Business Review

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

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men…

— William Temple

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

— Max Stirner

“When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.”

— Frederic Laloux

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

— James Hunter

Society is built upon trust.

— Robert South

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

Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked…

— Adam Curtis