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Authority Quotes
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Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
No moral system can rest solely on authority. (Quote by - A J Ayer)
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler 1)
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain. (Quote by - Samuel Butler 1)
Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance (Quote by - Richard Hooker)
Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. (Quote by - Arleigh Burke)
Authority is never without hate. (Quote by - Euripides)
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. (Quote by - D H Lawrence)
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. (Quote by - Kenneth Blanchard)