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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
• A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
• The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good… — Russell Baker
• Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the… — Mikhail Bakunin
• But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
• I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
• Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
• I cannot stand authority. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under… — Samuel Adams
• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison

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