Authority quotes

Discover inspiring quotes about authority and leadership from influential figures. Gain wisdom and guidance in navigating and establishing your own authority. Unleash your inner leader with our collection of captivating quotes on authority.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

- Ernestine L. Rose

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

- Phil Angelides

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

- Gloria Steinem

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

- John Engler

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

- Stanley Milgram

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

- Brendan Francis

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

- Roy Moore

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

- James Hillman

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

- Thomas Huxley

Authority forgets a dying king.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

- J. M. Roberts

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

- William Greider

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

- Bruno Bettelheim

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

- Norman Lamm

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

I've always had trouble with authority.

- John Milius

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

- Euripides

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

- Marie de France

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

- Lakhdar Brahimi

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

- Mohandas Gandhi

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

- Ibrahim Babangida

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

- Chief Joseph

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

- Arthur Keith

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

- Max de Pree

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

- Moshe Katsav

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

- Hannah Arendt

The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.

- Agnes E. Meyer

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

- William H. Seward

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

- Vernon Jordan