Authority Quotes - Page 6

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

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Atheist

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

  Jean Tinguely

  Art, Common, Form

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• Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Prejudice, Opinion

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.258

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Power, Opportunity

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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Ignazio Silone

  Religious, Freedom, Fear

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humility, Race

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

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• Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Freedom, Fall, Hands

  "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

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

  John Adams

  Leadership, Character, Persistence

  "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• The People adore authority.

  Charles Baudelaire

  People, Adore

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Proud

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• There is no authority but yourself.

  Rick Remender

  Rick Remender (2014). “Black Science Vol. 1”, p.8, Image Comics

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• Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Acceptance, Denial

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “The only revolution”

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• Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hands, House

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles: The Theban Plays”, p.252, Routledge

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• He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Moral, Force

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have; indeed all their administrations are worse than in vain — they are a solemn mockery in the sight of God.

  Orson Pratt

  Christian, Church, Modern

  "Divine Authority, or, the Question, Was Joseph Smith sent of God?".

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• The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.168, 谷月社

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• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  Jim Clyburn

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

  John Wycliffe

  Exercise, Power, Men

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• It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

  Mencius

  Noble, Difficult

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• If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

  Epictetus

  Heart, Rose, Crowns

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.95

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• Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Judging, Sake, Given

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

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• Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Enlightenment, May

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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