Authority Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Authority.
Top Quotes
“Disobedience”
“Social influence”
“I appeal unto Cæsar.”
“Rational-legal authority”
“There is no fettering of authority.”
“Nearest the king, nearest the gallows.”
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
“Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.”
“Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.”
“And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.”
“Thus can the demi-god Authority
Make us pay down for our offense by weight.”
“Wikipedia: Authority”
“All authority must be out of a man's self, turned * * * either upon an art, or upon a man.”
“Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
His absolute "shall"?”
“Authority forgets a dying king
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.”
“Whatever the man in authority said, it was not pleasant.
Whatever the man in authority said, it was not right.”
“Obviously, absolute Authority in the strong sense of the word is never realised in fact. Only God is held to possess it.”
“Mistakes made by influential scholars are indeed liable to be repeated by later generations content to rest in the unstable shade of authority.”
“It seemed even the smallest exercise of arbitrary authority could go to one’s head like wine. I told myself to remember this when I was older.”