You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You’re dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Thus can the demi-god Authority make us pay down for our offence by weight.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.
Some people just become stupid with more authority.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.[Aucun homme n’a une autorité naturelle sur son semblable.]
Let us agree, then, that might does not make right, and that we are bound to obey none but lawful authorities.[Convenons donc que force ne fait pas droit, et qu’on n’est obligé d’obéir qu’aux puissances légitimes.]
Discipline and indiscipline are the twin children of Authority.
Authority is not a quality one person ‘has,’ in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
