Quotations on authority

The highest duty is to respect authority.
-Leo XIII
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
-Anne Bradstreet
All authority is quite degrading.
-Oscar Wilde
Authority is no stronger than the man who wields it.
-Dolores E. McGuire
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
-Yugoslav Proverb
All authority belongs to the people.
-Thomas Jefferson
The wisest have the most authority.
-Plato
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
-Joseph Addison
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
-Aeschylus
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
-James Russell Lowell
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-Thomas Huxley
Never trust what authorities tell you. Why not? Because Noam Chomsky said so!
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