Authority Quote by Tom Petty

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I…

— Hal Holbrook

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

— Winnie Byanyima

I've always had trouble with authority.

— John Milius

I hear you speak and suddenly I'm reminded of how the people I respected most in my life had a problem with authority.

— John Marston

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

— Denis Leary

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really…

— Steve Jobs

As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself

— Anonymous

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and…

— Joe Strummer

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite…

— Kim Gordon

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

— Dr. Dre

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

— Linda Hunt

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

— Nigella Lawson