"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy……" — Albert Einstein
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the…
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to…
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America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe…
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading…
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful…
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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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…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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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…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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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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