Reject all given authority. Believe nothing, accept no one's words because they're meaningless. Do not listen to anyone. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some authority on parenting once said, Hold them very close and then let them go. This is the hardest truth for a… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“No matter how many precautions we take, none of us are truly in control. Only God can claim that kind of authority.… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
Mars and Venus and Jupiter, all of the handiwork of God was now placed in the authority of the God of the… — Creflo A. Dollar Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke” — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.” — C.J. Langenhoven Copy Share Image
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be. — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“-commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over… — Orsen Card Copy Share Image
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace” — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image