Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Authority

Authority

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.--Sy Safransky (in "Beginner's Mind" by Gillian Kendal (in The Sun January 2014)
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.--Margaret Benson (The Venture of Rational Faith)
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.--Leonardo Da Vinci
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses not his understanding but rather his memory.--Leonardo da Vinci
Authority as he knows it, is always dangerous, selfish, inexplicable. It looks after its own mysterious affairs in a dark privacy. It never explains.--Joyce Cary (Mister Johnson)
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 intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.--Samuel Butler (Miscellaneous Thoughts)
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 (Lay Sermons)
For in the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Besides, the modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.--Galileo Galilei (Frammenti e lettere)
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 am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.--Alexander the Great
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 shall be an autocrat; that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me; that's his.--Catherine the Great
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.--Noam Chomsky (Language and Politics)
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 less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.--Charles, Prince of Wales
Liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.--Cornel West
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
No authority is higher than reality.--Peter Nivio Zarlenga
No one can estimate the power of authority among the poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.--Joyce Cary (Except the Lord)
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.--Robert H. Jackson
Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much.--Francis Bacon ("Of Empire", Essays)
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
One who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.--James Russell Lowell
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.--Madeleine Albright
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)
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.--Emma Goldman
System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.--Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.--Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel)
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.--Albert Einstein
We became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.--Tim Allen