One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem
Authority is never without hate.
Euripides
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
Chief Joseph
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
James Hillman
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