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Authority Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there…
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a…
- Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
- Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
- If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first…
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
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
- I cannot stand authority. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison