Fighting Authority Quotes

#1. The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Erich Fromm

#2. When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

Tatum O'Neal

#3. We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

Madonna

#4. One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Atom Egoyan

#5. It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

William Faulkner

#6. A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

Jonathan Auxier

#7. Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free speech absolutists were unchastened.

Garry Trudeau

#8. I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Abbie Hoffman

#9. It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Rachel Maddow

#10. I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

Gloria Estefan

#11. I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

Alison Brie

#12. With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

Maggie Carey

#13. There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Karen Nussbaum

#14. I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

Nagisa Oshima

#15. All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.

Edward Abbey

#16. In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.

Malebo Sephodi

#17. by indignities men come to dignities

Francis Bacon

#18. I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.

James Anthony Froude

#19. I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

George Eliot

#20. I fight authority and authority always wins.

John Mellencamp

#21. I like guys who wear nice clothes, nice jeans, nice trainers - I hate skinny jeans and those T-shirts that are really low-cut.

Georgia Salpa

#22. Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Bill James