Resist Authority Quotes

#1. no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.

Juana Maria Rodriguez

#2. I went to Hell and back for her! Did you honestly think I would just let you come in here and take her from me?

Amity Hope

#3. 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

#4. Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Jonathan Swift

#5. Where will I sit? Sit? Why, on this comfortable chaise longue I've carried here for you in my pocket, Your Highness, so glad you asked. I clamp my mouth shut, struggling not to say it aloud.

Amie Kaufman

#6. To resist him that is set in authority is evil

John Bartlett

#7. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Ian McEwan

#8. To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm

#9. It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

Steven Weinberg

#10. When hit with a genius idea, people tend to say, "Well, if I sat down in a chair and really thought about it, I could have had that genius idea, too." But they didn't
and even if they'd wanted to, it could never have happened.

Douglas Coupland

#11. It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

Cindy Sheehan

#12. Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience.

John Keats

#13. Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jane Hamilton

#14. But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds.

Julian Barnes