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• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

  Thomas Szasz

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Authority, Minimal, Teachers

• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Oppression, Inflicted, Heavy

• Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

  John Adams

  Topics in Power, Society

  Tags in Authority, Political, Character

• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in College

  Tags in Authority, Want, Parents

• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Best

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  Abu Bakr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Sincere, Wrong

• The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administrations duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Congress, Incompetent, Iraq, Bush Administration, War

• Think for yourself and question authority.

  Timothy Leary

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Yourself

• We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Tags in Authority

• The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Tags in Authority, Tradition, Restraints, Opposite, Legality

• Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Tags in Authority, Skeptic

• I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Tags in Authority, Leader

• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  Zebulon Pike

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Authority, Spaniards

• The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Authority, Bus, Applied, Transit

• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  Joseph Addison

  Tags in Authority, Religious, Sanction

• The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

  Aeschylus

  Tags in Authority, Stern

• The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

  George Bancroft

  Tags in Authority

• I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Tags in Imposed, Authority, Bow

• But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Tags in Authority, Sincerity, Infallible

• 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

  Topics in Funny, Love

  Tags in Authority, Comedian