Authority Quote by Van Wyck Brooks

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse…

— David Icke

The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that…

— Tobias Forge

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

— Laurence Sterne

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

— Gore Vidal

I think there's a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people believe they control the world.

— Iris Sawyer

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience -…

— Mitt Romney

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

— Peter Ustinov

The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the…

— Abraham Myerson

Religion, throughout the years, has become a very oppressive thing that doesn't allow people to get to know the God it was created to…

— Kirk Franklin

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and…

— John Stuart Mill