1,121 Quotes About Authority

...like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

Your authority holds to espionage me over your inner jealous, more willingly, I patronage over my inner zealous

Your authority holds to espionage me over your inner jealous, more willingly, my mastery holds you to patronage over my inner zealous

To dream of liberty, in the sense of every man his own sole governor, is as futile as to dream of a world in which apples do not necessarily drop from the tree, but may fly off at a tangent in any direction.

He looks very authoritative—even more so now in his uniform of brass buttons and blue wool—but authority and reason are two different things.

When Scripture speaks, God speaks, and the matter is settled.

There are authorities to choose from," Tharkay said, "to suit any action, if you like; I prefer to keep the choice a little closer.

But this tacit understanding (admitting it to exist) cannot at all justify the conclusion drawn from it. A tacit understanding between A, B, and C, that they will, by ballot, depute D as their agent, to deprive me of my property, liberty, or life, cannot at all authorize D to do so. He is none the less a robber, tyrant, and murderer, because he claims to act as their agent, than he would be if he avowedly acted on his own responsibility alone.

It helps to fight authority with authority