"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,……" — Robert M. Lindner
"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."
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Robert M. Lindner
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13 Quotes by Robert M. Lindner
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How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
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As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
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Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
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It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
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Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and…
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It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality…
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Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song,…
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We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.
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In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a…
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Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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I cannot stand authority.
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