Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
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.
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.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
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