Authority Rather Quotes
- Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its… — Bertrand Russell
- The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase… — Dmitri Volkogonov
- When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
- When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
- ... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for… — Lucretia Mott