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Authority Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of…
- There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,…
- No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could…
- To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
- Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good†government, it simply insures that it will work.…
- When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities…
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
- These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger;… — Sun Tzu
- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare
- 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