Acquire Quote by Wendell Phillips

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

— Calvin Coolidge

There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and ingenuity.

— Wangechi Mutu

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

— Banksy

What shall we say who have knowledge Carried to the heart? Shall wetake the act To the grave? Shall we, more hopeful, set up…

— Anonymous

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Authority is conferred by position, not character.

— Mason Cooley

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

— Robert Creeley

All authority belongs to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”

— Richie Norton

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you…

— Henry Fielding