(1767 quotes found)
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
Galileo Galilei
“We are the authors of our own disasters”
Latin Proverb
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance”
James Madison
“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”
Thomas Hobbes
“Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.”
Arleigh Burke
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
Robert E. Lee
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
Joseph Addison
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good”
Seneca
