Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero – Old Age, Authority
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon – Authority, Power
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
