Sublime

Authority: Appointing oneself (or a designated person) as the moral and political authority with the right to arbitrate justice, or an epistemological authority with the right to adjudicate the truth and the most desirable path toward change.

Authority, then, is granted by one or more people on the assumption that you will then do what they want you to do: centrally in organizational life to promptly provide solutions to problems.

He was claiming the right of disposal of our possessions. He has given them to us only as trustees, not as owners.

When I talk about authority, I’m really talking about competence. When looking for a guide, a hero trusts somebody who knows what they’re doing. The guide doesn’t have to be perfect, but the guide needs to have serious experience helping other heroes win the day.

Please understand that there are no real authorities, only perceived ones. The self-identity, full of limiting beliefs, projects its perception of authorities, rules, regulations and structures.

The authority of priests to absolve, the authority of popes to define the authority, even of inquisitors to terrify: these were all only dark defences erected round one central authority, more undemonstrable, more supernatural than all--the authority of a man to think.

under conditions of scarcity. They become authoritative. A century ago, a scholar wishing to study the topics