He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
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.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.