Authority Quotes

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth

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.
Dee Hock

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

All authority belongs to the people

The wisest have the most authority

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
Stephen W. Comiskey

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Authority forgets a dying king

Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.
Teresa Stover

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
John Charles Polanyi

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
Jonathan Mayhew

Authority is quite degrading.

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
Stephen W. Comiskey

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.







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