The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
Agnes E. Meyer

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele Commager

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Vita Sackville-West

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
John White Geary

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
Michael Baden

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
Henry A. Wise

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
Jimmy Kimmel

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
Paul Bailey

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay

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

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
Frank Chodorov

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
Hugh Lofting

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
Adnan Pachachi

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.
Matthew Green