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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge--fitter to bruise than polish __ANNE BRADSTREET

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your authority.  __DAVID WEBER

Any man who asks for the greater authority does not deserve to have it. __BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. __ALBERT EINSTEIN

There's no point in questioning something if you're not interested in finding the answer. We're right to question authority when we think that authority is unfounded, unjust, or otherwise just screwed up somehow. But if we ask the question, we need to be willing to help find the answer, understanding that the answer might be complicated, that it might be difficult, or that the answer might be different from what we initially think it is.  __STEVE NOWICKI

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.  __HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.  __STANLEY MILGRAM

For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them. __GEORGE BERKELEY

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force using which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny. __JACQUES MARITAIN

As soon as we abandon our reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. __BERTRAND RUSSELL

But man, proud man,

Dressed in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,

His glassy essence, like an angry ape,

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,

As make the angels weep. __WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself. __ALBERT EINSTEIN

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others. __STANLEY MILGRAM

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur: There, thou mightst behold the great image of authority; A dog's obeyed in office.  __WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Authority intoxicates,

And makes mere sots of magistrates;

The fumes of it invade the brain,

And make men giddy, proud, and vain. __SAMUEL BUTLER

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.  __P. J. O'ROURKE

And though authority is a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.  __WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. __STANLEY MILGRAM