Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation. — Walker Stapleton Copy Share Image
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. — Joe Royle Copy Share Image
If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities,… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
“As much upayog (applied awareness) as one can keep, that much authority has been created. If one can keep upayog for five… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
“Someone who had authority, or should have had authority and did not exercise authority. I do not know. But someone sometime let… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.” — B. A Santamaria Copy Share Image
“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March. — Jean Drapeau Copy Share Image
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.” — Shawna Morey Copy Share Image
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“AI can not make you an expert or an authority. AI can only make you appear to be an expert or an… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image