Authority Quotes

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

Human, Individual, Behind

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Reason, Rest, Individual

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama

Nothing, Wish, Desire

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
Dalai Lama

Else, Far, Concerned

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi

Life, Work, Respect

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave, Existing

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Knowledge, Reason

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

Respect, Down, Leader

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Yourself, Long

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi

Moral, Effort, Hold

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde

Bad, Necessity, Separate

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing, Silence

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu

Eat, Hungry, Taxes

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein

Made, Statement, Believed

The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Power, Society, Character

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Public, Three

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

Men, Thought, Thoughts

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

Anyone, Memory, Argument

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious

Moral, Alive, Possible

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney

God, Freedom, Government

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein

History, Science, Done

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.
Erich Fromm

Person, Him, Sense

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich

Love, Someone, Thoughts

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