Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert Lawrence

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
Chief Joseph

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
Linda Vester

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton

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

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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
John Abizaid

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley