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
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank Howard Clark
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Harold Russell 
Vince Lombardi 
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William O. Douglas 
Zebulon Pike 
Timothy Leary All Authority Quotes
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Herbert Read 
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim
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I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Sherman Alexie
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
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The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
Moshe Katsav
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Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
James Hetfield
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The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
John T. Flynn
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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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