| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37907 |
| QUOTATION: | Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), French philosopher. “The Democratic Charter,” Man and the State, University of Chicago Press (1951). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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