Quotes About Authority

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.