Authority Quotes - Page 4

• Think for yourself and question authority.

  Timothy Leary

  Love, Life, Spiritual

  Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.

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• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

  Robert E. Lee

  Wedding, Character, Civil War

  "General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

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• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Progress, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.6

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• No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fellow Man, Natural

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Kings, Dying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Memories, Intelligent, Rely Upon

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• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fate

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Leadership, Business, Authority And Power

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• All authority belongs to the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Credit, Thousand

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.417

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• What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it

  Anita Hill

  People, Understanding, Needs

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• Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Truth, Secret

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• In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Respectable

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.281, Bantam

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• What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

  Molly Ivins

  Respect, Needs, Too Much

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• Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Reality, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Edward William Sutton, Harris Rackham (1942). “Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes”

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• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

  Seneca the Younger

  Power, Long, Duration

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• 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

  Listening To Others, Effective Listening, Leader

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Class, Violence, Revolution

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.390, Open Road Media

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• Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, People, Roles

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons

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• Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wells, Employed

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.271

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• Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

  David Amram

  Writing, Literature, World

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• The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Jesus, Enemy, Would Be

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Experience is the highest authority.

  Carl Rogers

  Highest

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• The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

  Barack Obama

  Pay, Action, Enormous

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• If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

  Anthony de Mello

  Harm, Refuse, Ifs

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