Authority Quotes

I really rebel against authority.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

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

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.