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.
Strength of mind does not wholly display itself, except in attacks upon power.[Alternate translation:]Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.[La force de l’esprit ne se développe tout entière qu’en attaquant la puissance.]
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.]
No art can conquer the people alone – the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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.]
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
For in that sphere, the exercise of authority consists precisely in administration.[Denn Herrschaft ist im Alltag primär: Verwaltung.]
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.
