Top 23 Quotes About Questioning Authority
#1. When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?
Red Tash
#2. Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
Amy Chua
#3. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination
LDarnell
#4. A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
Amy Chua
#5. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
Larry Ellison
#6. I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.
Terry Tempest Williams
#7. Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.
Rush Limbaugh
#8. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
Gautama Buddha
#9. I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.
Liam Gillick
#10. We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.
Loni Anderson
#11. 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
#12. Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.
Laurie Seidler
#13. 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
#14. Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#15. The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.
Howard Dean
#16. I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
Lorne Michaels
#17. 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
#18. Certainly we admire Satan as a symbol of the questioning mind, the refusal to serve, the refusal to blindly obey authority.
Lilith Starr
#19. Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off
especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
Sue Grafton
#20. It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.
Jennifer Aniston
#21. In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
Tahir Shah
#23. Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.
William Redington Hewlett
