It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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 is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
I've always had trouble with authority.
I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.
I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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