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
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei 
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I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Lionel Trilling
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Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.
John Culberson
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
Mikhail Bakunin
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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
Clare Short
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
Linda Vester
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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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