Authority Quotes - Page 7

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

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• There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

  Derek Bok

  Law, Littles, Too Much

  "A Flawed System," Harvard Magazine, May-June 1983

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

  Vernon Jordan

  Jobs, Chicago, Lasts

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• In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Church, Higher, Acknowledge

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• Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Body, Juniors, Scientist

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• The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

  Bill Forsyth

  Emotional, People, Interesting

  Interview with Gerald Peary, www.geraldpeary.com. September 1985.

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• The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

  Robert Breault

  Judging, Jury, Stills

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• Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Honor is a harder master than the law.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Honor, Masters

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.231, Xist Publishing

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• The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Firsts, Reason

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.270

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• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Betrayed, Dictatorship, Painter

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• I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

  Juvenal

  Order, Judgement, Done

  'Satires' no. 6, l. 223

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• Convention is the ruler of all.

  Pindar

  Conventions, Rulers

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• The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Law, Feelings, Should

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• Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Government, Satisfaction, Tendencies

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• Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Scientist, Should, Scholar

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• Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

  John Muir

  Love Is, Boss, Sublime

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.308, The Mountaineers Books

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• There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Sacrifice, Moral, Moral Authority

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.418, A&C Black

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• Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Responsibility, Exercise, Enjoy

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• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

  Michel Foucault

  Freedom, Tyrants, Danger

  Michel Foucault (1971). “Madness and Civilization”

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

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Power, Natural, Inclination

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Respect, Football

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

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Passion, Humility, Atheism

  "Invented symbols". www.nytimes.com. January 05, 2006.

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• The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Exercise, Two, Contradiction

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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