Authority Quotes

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You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have… — George Q. Cannon
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I… — Maurice Blanchot
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. — Orson Scott Card
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...… — Frank I. Cobb
To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient.… — Chuck Palahniuk
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time… — Dee Hock
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right… — Walter E. Williams
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not. — William James
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been… — Charles Babbage
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. — Laozi
[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… — Christopher Hitchens
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson

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