Top 59 Question Authority Quotes
#1. I do remember seeing Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar, one of those. It was a liberation theology venue. Anything radical seemed to be accepted there. I definitely picked up the idea there that you should question authority.
Ian MacKaye
#2. My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Maya Lin
#3. Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
Claire Danes
#4. That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.
Susan Sarandon
#5. Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
Timothy Leary
#6. I understand the need for conformity. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense. Discipline is the key to conformity, and it is important that we learn not to question authority at an early age.
David Thorne
#7. If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.
Andrew Saul
#9. One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.
C.L. Wilson
#10. By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,
Ann Druyan
#11. What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority ...
Doug Stanhope
#13. I think it's a good idea to always question authority, but don't judge, have empathy towards your fellow man.
Bobby Blaze Smedley
#14. I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
Nicolas Cage
#16. I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.
Pink
#18. It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
Benjamin Franklin
#20. Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.
Joichi Ito
#21. The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.
Bill Maher
#22. It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.
Taylor Mali
#23. Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?
Archibald Marwizi
#24. It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
Adnan Pachachi
#25. A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.
Stephen Colbert
#26. 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
#27. As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.
Adam Hamilton
#28. He sought the knowledge - not easily accessible - of who had the power of decision over the particular matter in question, and, the source of authority identified, by what means influence could be exerted. This
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#29. Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.)
Terry Pratchett
#30. I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.
Rajneesh
#31. If you pretend to have authority, people never question you.
Jennifer Close
#32. To question your world is to become your own authority.
Kyle Hoobin
#33. Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.
Michel De Montaigne
#34. The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.
John Thackway
#35. It amounts to a diseased attitude - a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.
Isaac Asimov
#36. In many online breast cancer groups, members get upset when you question any authority's position. When patients invest in that authority, they don't want to see their investment devalued or diminished by questioning.
Lynne Farrow
#37. Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.
Larry Burkett
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.
Gilbert Highet
#41. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
Jerry Bridges
#42. The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority. Who are you going to follow in your life? Who will command your allegiance? Christ ... or culture? You really can't have it both ways.
Stu Weber
#43. Authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.
Noam Chomsky
#44. Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.
Tavis Smiley
#45. When we suffer from amnesia, every form of serious authority for faith is in question, and we live unauthorized lives of faith and practice unauthorized ministries.
Walter Brueggemann
#46. Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.
Brandon Sanderson
#48. Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#49. I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
Anna Louise Strong
#50. Joining the church felt like joining a secret club; and you learned the rules after you joined. The first rule of the church was: Never question what it is that you have joined.
Stephen White
#51. Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
John C. Polanyi
#52. Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
Peter Straub
#53. The middle-class parents talked things through with their children, reasoning with them. They didn't just issue commands. They expected their children to talk back to them, to negotiate, to question adults in positions of authority.
Anonymous
#54. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and
Victor Hugo
#55. Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.
Kenneth Eade
#56. Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
Alberto Manguel
#57. It is a question of will, Mr. Wells," he said, striving to imbue his slurred voice with a tone of authority. "That's all.
Felix J. Palma
#58. Today, the mere idea of aristocracy is incompatible with the dominant ideology. But every people needs an aristocracy. It's an integral part of human nature and can't be dispensed with. The question then is not 'For or against aristocracy?' but 'What kind of aristocracy?
Guillaume Faye
#59. It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.
Vincenzo Galilei
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