no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere…

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

— Stanley Milgram

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to…

— Patrisse Cullors

“When millions of people are starving, everyone is implicated.”

— Albert Camus

President Trump basically has interfered with an investigation where he may be implicated. That's outrageous. And that's why we're having so much of a…

— Maxine Waters

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even…

— Stanley Milgram

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of…

— Howard Zinn

People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these…

— Murray Bookchin

“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“This world is indeed of our ownership, but the authority (over it) is not received. However much cleansing one accomplishes, that is how much…

— Dada Bhagwan

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

— Stanley Milgram

“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an…

— Erica Goros

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal