Authority Quote by Walter Lippmann

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

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct…

— Ruth Benedict

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

— Hannah Arendt

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

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life…

— Noam Chomsky

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

— Patrick O'Brian

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge