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Authority Quotes by Philip Pullman
- I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
- As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy…
- Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and…
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