Authority Quotes

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

Anthony Daniels
- People
- Age
- Criticism
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

William P. Young

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

Augustus
The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

Adolf Hitler
O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

John Milton
- God
- Son
- Execrable
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

William H. Seward
I put myself in a position of authority where if I get judged, I get scrutinized. So if I get caught slipping, than I have to reap the repercussions of it. That is the game I’m in and people will judge you, you just have to get over it.

Damon Dash
- Myself
- Judge
- Scrutinized
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Cate Blanchett
- Stress
- Become
- Confident