Authority Quotes

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The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity… — Joseph Campbell
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own. — Banksy
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… — Cormac McCarthy
I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you… — Ray Bradbury
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young
Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that… — Bob Dylan
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — Oscar Wilde
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism… — Ronald Reagan
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from… — Henry David Thoreau
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority… — Deepak Chopra
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. — Hillary Clinton
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx
For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which… — Karl Popper
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on… — Noam Chomsky
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer… — Hermann Hesse
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and… — Jodi Picoult
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. — Terry Tempest Williams
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. — Tom Robbins
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the… — N. Scott Momaday

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