Top 25 Anti Authoritarian Quotes
#1. To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
Malcolm McLaren
#2. Don't put clothes on food. It's supposed to be naked.
Craig Benzine
#3. The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
Adam McKay
#4. Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.
Calvin Ayre
#5. There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
Marlon Brando
#6. My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
Lynne Stewart
#7. The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
Edward Said
#8. The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#9. All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.
Isabel Allende
#10. It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.
Richard Gere
#13. Anti-digital mindsets are those "status quo" types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.
Pearl Zhu
#14. Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
G. Willow Wilson
#15. Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you."
"Sir?"
"It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority."
"Sir?"
"That's practically zen.
Terry Pratchett
#16. The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
Adam Carolla
#18. Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
Ernst Junger
#19. We are known to be anti-authoritarian, anti-institutional, and notoriously anti-religious - more likely to quote Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, or Star Trek than the Bible.
Gudjon Bergmann
#20. Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
Art Spiegelman
#21. For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic anarchism, has become the core of the value system in the USA.
Eric Hobsbawm
#22. To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.
Stephen R. Covey
#23. To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
George Henry Lewes
#24. Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian
that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
John Dryden
#25. The pursuit of truth, as a form of political action, is inherently disruptive, anti-authoritarian, and dangerous to those content with the way things are.
Nancy Snow
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