Authority Quotes - page 2

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, But whatever its authority, It doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. (Pierre Corneille)
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. View quote
Albert Einstein
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. View quote
Thomas Paine
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. View quote
Cicero
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. (Alija Izetbegović)
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. View quote
Anne Rice
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. View quote
Moshe Dayan
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. View quote
Keith Richards
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. View quote
Joseph Addison
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. View quote
Joseph Addison
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. View quote
Gloria Steinem
No moral system can rest solely on authority. View quote
Alfred Jules Ayer
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. (Marcus Garvey)
I believe in the magic and authority of words. View quote
René Char
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. View quote
Philip Sidney
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. View quote
Plutarch