Authority Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

— Anonymous

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

— Marcus Aurelius

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

— Russell M. Nelson

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

— Banksy

“The source of irrational authority, on the other hand, is always power over people. This power can be physical or mental, it can be…

— Erich Fromm

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor can he…

— Christopher Hitchens

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Integrity does not consist of loyalty to ones subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles.

— Anonymous