Quotes About Challenging Authority

#1. Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

Greg Graffin

#2. My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.

Isabel Allende

#3. There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

Tariq Ali

#4. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.

Italo Calvino

#5. Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

Greg Graffin

#6. Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.

Greg Graffin

#7. I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!

Rick Tramonto

#8. I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

Paul Simon

#9. I agree
the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort. (53)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.

Susan Howatch

#11. I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

Larry Wall

#12. There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Never blame a text from the Bible for your behavior. It's irresponsible. Anybody who says X, Y, and Z is in the bible - it's as if one says, 'I have no role in evaluating this.

Steven Greenberg

#15. If we cannot speak with confidence about biblical authority, what ground have we for challenging the reigning plausibility structure?

Lesslie Newbigin

#16. It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

Kary Mullis

#17. She is remarkably dry,' he said to Stephen who, preferring to die in the open, had crept up on deck,

Patrick O'Brian

#18. I believe in emotional branding.

Roustam Tariko

#19. The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

Ed Stetzer