Top 25 Authority Quotes of 479

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

Absolutism, Intention, Authority

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

T. D. Jakes

Reign, Influence, Authority

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Facts, Authority, Abandon

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

Edward Said

Rooms, Authority, Permit

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Haile Selassie

Responsibility, Authority, Accepting

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Thomas Hobbes

Law, Justice, Authority

Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

Roger Williams

People, Sovereign, Authority

Source: www.libertymagazine.org

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

Chief Joseph

Men, White Man, Authority

North American Review, Apr. 1879

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Peter Kropotkin

Anarchy, Authority, Heresy

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.

Sigmund Freud

Authority, Conclusion, My Own

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

Stanley Milgram

Long, People, Authority

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Norman Douglas

Firsts, Authority, Should

Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

Thomas Hooker

People, Foundation, Authority

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

Joe Strummer

Power, Age, Authority

Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.

Jesse Duplantis

Mountain, Authority, Deny

Jesse Duplantis Ministries (1993). “The Ministry of Cheerfulness: How the Healing Power of Joy Can Change the World Around You”

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Lucretia Mott

Truth, Authority

Lucretia Mott, Beverly Wilson Palmer, Holly Byers Ochoa, Carol Faulkner (2002). “Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott”, p.408, University of Illinois Press

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

People, Authority, Responsible

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

Honesty, Liberty, Authority

John Winthrop (1853). “The History of New England from 1630 to 1649”, p.281

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, Abuse, Authority

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

R. C. Sproul

Sovereign, Sin, Authority

R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.