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Authority Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still…
- In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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
- Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin