Authority Quotes

Authority is never without hate. (Euripides)
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. View quote
Francis Bacon
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. View quote
Albert Einstein
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. View quote
George Carlin
Think for yourself and question authority. View quote
Timothy Leary
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time. View quote
William Hazlitt
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. View quote
Emil Cioran
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. View quote
Stanley Milgram
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. View quote
Samuel Adams
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. View quote
Denis Diderot
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. View quote
Mark Twain