One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
No authority is higher than reality.
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.
I've never been any good with authority.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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