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Authority Quotes by Ernst Junger
- The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,…
- I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who…
- Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties…
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
- Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are… — Immanuel Kant
- 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
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. — William Shakespeare
- The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to… — Henry David Thoreau