#authority

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. ↗

— William Greider

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. ↗

— Robert Hall

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. ↗

— Michael Baden

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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. ↗

— George Carlin

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