| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Einstein | To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. |
| Austin O Malley | The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. |
| Bible | For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. |
| Eric Werkowitz | A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership. |
| Francis Bacon | All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - Francis Bacon, |
| John Winthrop | Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest. |
| Keith Richards | If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. |
| Mark Twain | Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The faith that stand on authority is not faith. |
| Samuel Butler | Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain. |
| Samuel Butler | He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. |
| Samuel Butler | Authority is never without hate. |
| Thomas Huxley | Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. |
| Yugoslav Proverb | If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. |
| William Shakespeare | Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. |
| William Shakespeare | Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'? |
| William Shakespeare | Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office. |
| William Shakespeare | Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. |
| William Shakespeare | Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven, on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so, yet still 'tis just. |
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