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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.
Authority is never without hate.
Authority is never without hate.
Authority is quite degrading
Authority is quite degrading
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon read more
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- Francis Bacon,
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that read more
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
All authority belongs to the people
All authority belongs to the people
