#authority

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. ↗

— Alan Moore

#authority #authority

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. ↗

— George Bancroft

#no respect #obtain #people #possess #respect

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#believe #disrespect #forms #i #i believe

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#authority #calls #eavesdrop #his #international

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#must #opening #our #readers #sentence

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#basically #broad #complete #conduct #history

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #better #camp #either #i

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#enjoy #exercising #get #like #lose

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#much #nothing #silence #strengthens