A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - Francis Bacon,

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain.

Authority is never without hate.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.