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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
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.
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.
No authority is higher than reality.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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.