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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.
I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.
We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.
I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
I've been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don't take to authority very well.
In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.
Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.
As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.
Experience is, for me, the highest authority.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.
Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found
Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
Power people are generally threatened by authority people.