The young are too apt to believe what a great man says, especially if he be an authority in the profession they follow.
Authority Quotes
Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass.
Nothing more impairs authority than a too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If thunder itself were to be continual, it would excite no more terror than the noise of a mill.
It is one of the few “laws” of human relations that not only those who suffer from arbitrary authority, but also those who wield it, become alienated from others and thus dehumanized.
The highest duty is to respect authority.
Authority is quite degrading.
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
