All authority belongs to the people
Thomas Jefferson
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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.
Albert Einstein
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Yugoslavian Proverb
Authority is quite degrading.
Oscar Wilde
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Robert Lindner
Great men in judicial places will never want authority.
Proverb
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
Napolon Bonaparte
A little wit and plenty of authority, that is what has almost always governed the world.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac