Contempt For Authority Quotes

#1. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

#2. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Socrates

#3. To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Thomas Paine

#4. People are no damned good.

William Steig

#5. [Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of obeying commands with silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty.

Plutarch

#6. I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

Julian Assange

#7. The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

Alexander Hamilton

#8. So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap.
"Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up.

Kristan Higgins

#9. The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

Harold Russell

#10. If cops were viewed as the enemy, the tenuous balance of power could shift. Laws would be broken out of contempt. Authority wouldn't be acknowledged. Police officers might even be attacked, or worse.

J.A. Konrath

#11. Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#14. The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

Hannah Arendt

#15. And his idea of solid comfort was to be left in utter solitude for two or three hours.

Isaac Asimov

#16. Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

Gilbert Hernandez

#17. I am so ready to hunt down those tiny adorable creatures and give them what for," said Emma. "SO READY."
"Emma . . ."
"I may even tie bows on their heads."
"We have to interrogate them."
"Can I get a selfie with one of them first?"
"Eat your toast, Emma.

Cassandra Clare