(1725 quotes found)
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
“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
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts”
Voltaire
“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
“Authority is quite degrading”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
George Carlin
“All authority belongs to the people”
Thomas Jefferson
“The wisest have the most authority”
Plato
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