“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“Authority is quite degrading”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
George Carlin Quotes
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”
Matt Groening Quotes
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
Michel de Montaigne Quotes
“All authority belongs to the people”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
“There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth”
African Proverb Quotes
“The wisest have the most authority”
Plato Quotes
“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.”
Bill Cosby Quotes
“All authority must be out of a man’s self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. – Francis Bacon,”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Natural History–Century X–Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc.
“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.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Acts (ch. XXV, v. 11)
“Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
“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 (1) Quotes
“Authority is never without hate.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
“Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: All’s Well That Ends Well (Parolles at II, iii)
“Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute ‘shall’?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured His glassy essence–like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow’d of the power in his eye That bow’d the will.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Thomas Huxley Quotes
“A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.”
Eric Werkowitz Quotes