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Authority Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I…
- The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on…
- About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination.…
- Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them…
- If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:…
- I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable…
- Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
- To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the…
- The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy…
- Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
More Authority Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson
- To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot
- Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are… — Immanuel Kant