I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid. — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
“A leader doesn’t need imposed or structural authority. In fact, it may get in the way, if you’re not careful.” — Alex Harms Copy Share Image
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will. — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended,… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“...that kind of skeptical questioning, don't accept what authority tells you -attitude of science- is also nearly identical to the attitude of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The biblical framework limits the authority of each institution to its specific jurisdiction. The church does not have the right to meddle… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
