Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Michel Foucault
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically... →
Barney Frank
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
Thomas Frank
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
Jonathan Haidt
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Robert Hall
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Gary Hamel