Top Authority Quotes
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
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
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
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Robert Reich All Authority Quotes
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
Robert Creeley 
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In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
Mitchell Baker
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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
John Stott
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Herbert Read
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
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They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
Roy Moore
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley
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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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