Authority Quote by William Penn

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

— George Eliot

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best…

— Charlotte Mason

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

— Francis Bacon

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

— David Jeremiah

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to…

— Herman Kahn

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

“Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and…

— Richard Baxter

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong,…

— John Henry Newman

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge