(1767 quotes found)
“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
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
“Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
Vince Lombardi
“As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.”
Carl Van Vechten
“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.”
Bill Cosby
“Authority is quite degrading”
Oscar Wilde
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts”
Voltaire
“The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
