Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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 must be respected and chosen wisely.
To be honest, prestige is probably the last thing I focus on.
No authority is higher than reality.
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.
I've never been any good with 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.
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