Challenge Authority Quotes

#1. To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which enabled the individual to challenge authority or the state.

Orlando Figes

#2. Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

Bryant McGill

#3. A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

Vivek Wadhwa

#4. And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

Robert Fisk

#5. The only authority my mother recognized was God's. God is love and the Bible is truth--everything else was up for debate. She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her.

Trevor Noah

#6. questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently.

Warren Berger

#7. If we do not accomplish it in time, what has begun with a monkey may not end with a monkey. Next even a swarm of mosquitoes may decide to challenge your authority.

R.K. Narayan

#8. Jackson, are you trying to challenge my authority as Alpha? Taz growled out. Ha! Therein the bullsh*t begins.

Shakuita Johnson

#9. I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Cate Blanchett

#10. I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

Lou Reed

#11. Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

Stanley Milgram

#12. How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

Neal Boortz

#13. Here, in the land of happy thoughts, there are no gross injustices, no abuses of authority, no economic and political systems to challenge, and no reason to complain. Here, we are all happy.

Chris Hedges

#14. My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

Kaley Cuoco

#15. 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 Chomsky

#16. Your MY first girlfriend I ever had
Your MY first boyfriend I ever had

Me

#17. The great challenge for the democratic-minded educator is how to transmit a sense of limit that can be ethically integrated by freedom itself. The more consciously freedom assumes its necessary limits, the more authority it has, ethically speaking, to continue to struggle in its own name.

Paulo Freire

#18. Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Matthew Desmond

#19. Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

Arthur Miller

#20. I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me.

Al Capone

#21. Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.

Holly Black

#22. You must never be limited by external authority, whether it be vested in a church, man, or book. It is your right to question, challenge, and investigate.

Bhagat Singh Thind

#23. When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists.

Greg Graffin

#24. It took me a while to understand that when you don't like someone, nothing they can say or do will ever seem right. Something as harmless as giving a kid a cookie becomes something aggressive, a challenge to their authority.

Alexandra Bracken

#25. A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#26. From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

Simon Schama

#27. Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. As an independent source of authority and knowledge, science has always had the capacity to challenge ruling powers' ability to control people by controlling their beliefs. Indeed, it has the power to challenge anyone who wishes to preserve, protect, or defend the status quo.

Naomi Oreskes

#30. I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow ... "
"That's nice," Kate said. "The shield.

Ilona Andrews

#31. The media - stenographers to power.

Amy Goodman

#32. PATCHES' OF AUTHORITY
Preteens Adhere, Teens Challenge, Hideout, Elderly Shun
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#33. This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.

Maurice Duplessis