Authority Proverbs


Sayings about Authority

Who gives the bread lays down the authority. ~ Spanish Proverbs

If you wish to know what a man is, put him in authority. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb

Authority has no partner. ~ French Proverbs

Authority, as a concept, can be used to mean the right to exercise power given by the State (in the form of government, judges, police officers, etc.), or by academic knowledge of an area (someone that can be an authority on a subject) -or in some societies- by higher spiritual powers or deities. ~ (Source Wikipedia)

Quotations about Authority

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. ~ Euripides

A man in authority is but as a candle in the wind, sooner wasted or blown out than under a bushel. ~ Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Authority and example lead the world. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Authority forgets a dying king. ~ Alfred Tennyson

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered. ~ Samuel Johnson

An argument from authority is but a weak kind of proof,–it being but a topical probation, and an inartificial argument depending on naked asseveration. ~ Sir Thomas Browne

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. ~ Confucius

Even reproof from authority ought to be grave, and not taunting. ~ Francis Bacon

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. ~ Stanley Milgram

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ~ Albert Einstein

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force. ~ Slavoj Zizek

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny. ~ Jacques Maritain

All authority must be out of a man’s self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. ~ Francis Bacon

Self-possession is the backbone of authority. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority. ~ D. H. Lawrence

Three means to fortify belief are experience, reason, and authority. Of these the more potent is authority; for belief upon reason or experience will stagger. ~ Francis Bacon

Authority is quite degrading. ~ Oscar Wilde

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. ~ John Stuart Mill

Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the vice of the top. ~ William Shakespeare

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. ~ Lucretia Coffin Mott

There is nothing sooner overthrown a weak head than opinion of authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass. ~ Sir Philip Sidney

Authority is never without hate. ~ Euripides

There is no fettering of authority. ~ William Shakespeare

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. ~ Oscar Wilde

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance. ~ Richard Hooker

Authority is properly the servant of justice, and political powers are arbitrary and illegitimate if not based upon qualification for that service. This is the doctrine of the ethical derivation of authority or public power, as opposed to that of an unconditioned and inherent sovereignty. ~ David Atwood Wasson

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. ~ Catherynne M. Valente

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself. ~ Albert Einstein

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. ~ Bertrand Russell

Any man who asks for greater authority does not deserve to have it. ~ Brian Herbert

There is no fettering of authority. ~ William Shakespeare

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. ~ Joseph Joubert

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth. ~ Isaac Watts

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. ~ James Russell Lowell

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ~ Charles Gaulle

All human authority is limited by geography, the ability to exercise power, and time. No one has ever been able to claim universal authority over all things. ~ Joey Shaw

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power of dominion. ~ Joseph Addison

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. ~ Alan Moore

All authority belongs to the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson

There is no authority but yourself. ~ Rick Remender

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. ~ Erich Fromm

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You’re dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! ~ Joseph Heller

Giving orders you know won’t be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority. ~ David Weber

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. ~ Walter Lippmann

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ~ Sir William Temple

Therefore it is that the evil principle of violence relegated to authority is ever increasing, and the evil becomes in time worse than that which it is supposed to control. ~ Leo Tolstoy

How long would authority . . . exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. ~ Emma Goldman

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge–fitter to bruise than polish. ~ Anne Bradstreet

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. ~ William P. Young

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