#authority

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

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We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

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I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#contrarianism #dissent #dissidents #free-thought #harold-rosenberg

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

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