Authority proverbs

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◆ I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

- A.W. Tozer99

◆ That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

- Noam Chomsky99

◆ The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

- Patrick Jones99

◆ I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

- James Madison99

◆ Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

- Alan Moore99

◆ To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

- Alan Moore99

◆ We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

- Catherynne M. Valente99

◆ Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.

- Timothy Leary99

◆ The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

- Stanley Milgram99

◆ You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

- J.D. Salinger99

◆ If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

- Jefferson Smith99

◆ If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

- Tacitus99