The authoritarianism of one man
is a crime and the authoritarianism
of many men is the State
- Celine Hagbard
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Always acknowledge a fault.
This will throw those in authority off
their guard and give you an opportunity
to commit more
- Mark Twain
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If you wish to know what a man is,
place him in authority
- Unknown
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To punish me for my contempt for authority,
fate made me an authority myself
- Albert Einstein
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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth,
you might as well use two feet
- Keith Richards
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know
- Unknown
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Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it
- Unknown
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A leading authority is someone lucky who guessed right
- Unknown
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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority
- Ken Blanchard
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I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth
- William Buckley, Jr.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn
- Cicero
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen
- Robert Heinlein
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority
- Thomas Huxley
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No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do
- Karin Ireland
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Any acceptance of authority
is the very denial of truth
- Unknown
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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority
- Stanley Milgram
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