Top Authority Quotes
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin
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
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank Howard Clark
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James Hetfield 
Gustav Heinemann 
Aeschylus All Authority Quotes
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
Ethan A. Hitchcock 
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Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
Lee Greenwood
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
Agnes E. Meyer
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams
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I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
Moon Unit Zappa
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley
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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Popular Authority Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonOscar WildeMohandas GandhiAlbert EinsteinMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireAmbrose Bierce PlatoFrancis BaconRonald ReaganDavid Herbert LawrenceEmile M. Cioran AeschylusLao Tzu
Ernest HemingwayJoseph AddisonFranklin D. RooseveltBryant H. McGillPierre CorneilleThomas HuxleyDonald RumsfeldJames MadisonHenri Frederic AmielJames Russell Lowell EuripidesArnold SchwarzeneggerDenis DiderotCharles de GaulleChief Joseph
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