Authority Quotes - page 3

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. (Benjamin Franklin)
The man who prefers his country before every other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the State. They both deny that right is superior to authority. View quote
John W. Campbell
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. View quote
Herbert Read
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. View quote
Walter Benjamin
There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. View quote
Christopher Columbus
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. (George Bancroft)
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. View quote
Andrew Johnson
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. View quote
Albert Einstein
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice. View quote
John Chrysostom
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them. View quote
Vitruvius
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. (Elihu Root)
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. View quote
Frank Chodorov
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. View quote
Hu Shih
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. View quote
Byron Dorgan
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. View quote
Dee Hock