Authority Quotes

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

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.

A wise prince must devise ways by which his citizens are always and in all circumstances dependent on him and his authority; and then they will always be faithful to him.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Nothing intoxicates some people like a sip of authority.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

The weaker the man in authority… the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Responsibility always exceeds authority.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.