“The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.” MoralDependsAuthorityGuidanceAcknowledgment Book:A Preface to Morals Source: A Preface to Morals
“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.” ThinkingMenPersonsUseSpeakLanguageCausesTeachProduceMastersDependsAuthorityIncreaseNobleFollowersLoyalInclination Author:Thomas Szasz
“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.” IfsCharacterPastSpeakInterestGreaterJudgingDependsAuthorityMouthsPassionateCommandReputationPreservesAssumptionTrendsResentmentCompositionDominantMajestyMomentumUtteranceOvershadowing Author:Learned Hand
“It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.” HardIssuesParticularJudgingDependsEasierAuthorityDifficultyImpactSecureBordersSolidarityAdjustmentBenchesTolerableUnanimityDisunity Author:Learned Hand
“In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.” KnowsMenPurposeGoalRealizingCommonLeaderWillingDependsAuthorityAchievementLosingIndividualityChosenSuperiorsCollaborationColleaguesSubordinatesPredecessorsSuccessorsFruitionCommon Purpose Author:John Desmond Bernal
“Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.” WorldStatesMightEnergyGrowthEffortExampleFieldsPositionDependsDevelopmentAuthorityScientistInternationalPracticalsSovietTechniciansAtomic Energy Author:Vyacheslav Molotov
“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.” PeopleIfsDoneWisdomPoliticsCausesEconomyDemocracyDependsKingsAuthorityVicesKingdomsLiberalismRomeConsentVice VersaAristocracyMagistratesPeople Can Change Author:Robert Bellarmine
“Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.” SpiritualFaithOrderPowerDependsAuthorityUnityDimensionsImperativesDecreeSpiritual Dimensions Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power
“Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.” GivingAdviceDependsEssentialsAuthorityCapacityConvincingConsultants Author:Andrew Thomas
“That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.” ChristianChristPrinciplesClearDependsBecomingAuthorityValidity Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.” PeopleHandsGovernmentChoicesPrinciplesDemocracyFateDependsAuthorityTraditionOppositesAbsolutesRestraintSovereigntyAbsolute PowerLegality Author:Lord Acton
“Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.” KidsParentKnowingRiskDependsAuthorityParentalKnowing EverythingParental Authority Author:Seymour Papert
“As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.” ValuesDependsAuthorityPainterAttainmentIntrinsic Value Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti