Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
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.
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 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.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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 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.
I've always had trouble with authority.
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.