The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Authority Quotes
The wisest have the most authority.
Great men in judicial places will never want authority.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
The decision finally rests not upon appeals to pat authority, but upon what people want.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
There are very few men that can bear authority if they haven’t been born with the shoulders for it. If you gave a man a nose that never had one, he would be blowing it all day.
Authority… is itself inherently an act of imagination.
