In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Georges Jacques Danton

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
Vince McMahon

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
John Mellencamp

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
John Mellencamp

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Maya Lin

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

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
Nigella Lawson

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Bryant H. McGill

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
John Stott

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
Robert Morgan

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Benjamin Tucker

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
Gustav Heinemann

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .
Suzanne Fields

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Kevin Kelly