Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'
The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
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 has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
No authority is higher than reality.
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