Authority Quote by Daniel Webster

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we…

— Thomas Paine

“Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash catastrophic events…

— Paul Johnson

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

— Edward Gibbon

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or…

— Mark Lawrence

Let us respect and honor all who seek enlightenment through love and understanding; also, let us not disregard nor silence religion, the sciences, philosophy,…

— Johnny Luckett

“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of…

— Jack Lynch

“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for these great…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of…

— Jacques Chirac

“But while the sloppy criticism of our fathers bequeathed to us the impossibility of being Christians, it didn’t bequeath to us an acceptance of…

— Fernando Pessoa