1,121 Quotes About Authority

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

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have been based on precedent.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...