#authority

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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


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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.


Galileo Galilei


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Think for yourself and question authority.


Timothy Leary


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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.


Walter Lippmann


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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.


Frederica Montseny


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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.


V. S. Naipaul


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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.


Barbara Olson


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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.


William Penn


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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.


Tom Robbins


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No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.


Ernestine L. Rose


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