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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
 Merciful heaven,
 Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
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 Merciful heaven,
 Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
    Dressed in a little brief authority,
     Most ignorant of what he's most assured
      His glassy essence--like an angry ape
       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
         would all themselves laugh mortal. 
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
 Shall remain!
 Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
  His absolute 'shall'?  
 Shall remain!
 Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
  His absolute 'shall'? 
 Those he commands move only in command,
 Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title
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 Those he commands move only in command,
 Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title
  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
   Upon a dwarfish thief. 
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
 Thus can the demigod Authority
 Make us pay down for our offense by weight
  The words of read more 
 Thus can the demigod Authority
 Make us pay down for our offense by weight
  The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,
   On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just. 
A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.
A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.