I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mohandas Gandhi

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde

The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle