"Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels,……" — Alan Moore
"Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade."
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253 Quotes by Alan Moore
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a…
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If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see…
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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly…
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You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that,…
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The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind
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On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I…
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It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a…
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It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what…
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By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's…
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I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is…
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The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it.…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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