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Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.
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Austin O'Malley
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
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Bible
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
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Charles de Gaulle
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools.
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Cyrus Curtis
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
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Elmer Davis
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
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Eric Werkowitz
A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.
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Euripides
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
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Francis Bacon
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
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Frank A. Clark
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
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George Eliot Felix Holt, the Radical
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
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Harry Gordon Selfridge
The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.The boss says "I"; the leader says "we."The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.The boss says go; the leader says let's go.
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John Winthrop
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.
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Keith Richards
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
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