Sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni spogliano d'autorità i decreti de' passati scrittori, i quali se vedute l'avessero, avrebbono diversamente determinato.
For in the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Besides, the modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.
Tags: science reason judgment opinion authority observation
Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.
Tags: humor conformity law rules foolishness authority fool rule
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
Noam ChomskyTags: freedom justification challenge authority domination dismantle heirarchy human-freedom illegitimate-power
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert EinsteinTags: authority
They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.
Richard AdamsWherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Oscar WildeTags: authority
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
Patrick JonesTags: wisdom different rebels metaphor authority
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 MadisonTags: politics freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech authority constitution
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Stanley MilgramTags: society ethics state responsibility government authority obedience
(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.
David J. VaughanTags: family leadership authority
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