“They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!”
Bill Watterson
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
“When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”
Matt Groening
“The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.”
Muhammad Iqbal
“The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic”
Richard Bellzon
“Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.”
Mark Twain
“Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.”
William Collins
