Authority Quote by Jean Francois Revel

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are…

— Timothy Leary

“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an…

— Erica Goros

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.…

— Stanley Milgram

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett