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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
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.
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.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.