Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison

Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Joe Biden

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Keith Richards

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Barney Frank