Quotes About Resistance To Authority

#1. I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Hal Holbrook

#2. Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Tom Morello

#3. She's a reader, she's always searching out the story

Kathleen MacMahon

#4. The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

William Henry Ogilvie

#6. This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

Henry Seymour Conway

#7. The hallmark of futile negotiations is that each side regards [an] overarching reality as a problem for the people on the other side of the table, rather than one for everyone at the table.

William Voegeli

#8. Space between thoughts is the meditative silence where greatness is created." - Anishka - Songs of the Mist

Shashi

#9. In a world where we seem to be beset by a trend towards 'manualising treatment modalities' the person-centred approach stands and says NO, that is not the way forward.

Richard Bryant-Jefferies

#10. Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

Thomas Sowell

#11. I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

#12. I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

Jens Lekman

#13. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

LDarnell

#14. The chance never arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being about fifty years old or so,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Rene Char

#16. I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Mary Pierce

#17. The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

James Madison

#18. I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.

Carson Kressley

#19. I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

Donatella Versace

#20. In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly ... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.

Conor Oberst

#21. Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.

Muso Kokushi

#22. In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

Philip Auslander

#23. Whilst every principle of authority and resistance has been pushed, upon both sides, as far as it would go, there is nothing so solid and certain, either in reasoning or in practice, that has not been shaken.

Edmund Burke

#24. This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#25. You know, you may look like that actor, but the only way I can tell for sure you're him is if I see that six-pack

S.E. Culpepper