Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Authority

Authority

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.--Leonardo Da Vinci
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.--Robert Lindner ("Education for Maturity" Must you Conform?)
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.--Anne Bradstreet ("Meditations Divine and Moral")
The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
The boss says "I"; the leader says "we."
The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.
The boss says "go"; the leader says "let's go."--Harry Gordon Selfridge
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.--Stanley Milgram
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.--Norman Douglas (An Almanac)
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.--Thomas Henry Huxley
A friend in power is a friend lost.--Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams)
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.--James Russell Lowell ("New England Two Countries Ago" Among My Books)
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body, and voice.--Leon Lessinger
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.--Rita Mae Brown (Starting from Scratch)
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.--Sigmund Freud (in Fragments of an Analysis with Freud by Wortis)
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.--George Eliot (Felix Holt, the Radical)
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.--Thomas Jefferson
If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.--Kin Hubbard (Martin's Back Country Sayings)
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.--Yugoslavian Proverb
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.--Galileo Galilei
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.--Frank A. Clark
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.--Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America)
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.--Walter Lippmann
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.--Euripides
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools.--Charles de Gaulle
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.--Elmer Davis
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.--Larry Burkett (Business by the Book)
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.--Erich Fromm (Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics)
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.--Cyrus Curtis
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.--Emma Goldman
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.--Albert Einstein