“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.”
La droite aujourd'hui (1979)
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Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
in an interview with William F. Buckley Jr. , November 17, 1977
1965
“We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.”
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
Queen v. Sowerby (1894), L. R. 2 Q. B. D. [1894], p. 175.
Tom Cruise (1962) American actor and film producer
We can rehabilitate criminals. We can bring peace and unite cultures.
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
René Char (1907–1988) 20th-century French poet
Message as a member of the French resistance, to his superiors in London, insisting that certain codewords "The library is on fire" be changed after a disastrous parachute drop which set a forest on fire and alerted the Gestapo to the location of his group of Maquis fighters, as quoted in René Char : This Smoke That Carried Us : Selected Poems (2004) edited by Susanne Dubroff
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.”
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) British poet
A Retort, from Gerald Massey's Lectures c.1900; often cited as They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority. <br class="br">Based on a quote of Lucretia Mott, "… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than “taking authority for truth.”", quoted in " Eminent women of the age http://books.google.de/books?id=gGFEDpWYWpwC&pg=PA375" By James Parton et. al., (S.M. Betts & Company, 1868, p375).
“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“If God is the author of life, there must be a script.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark