Authority Denial Quotes

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

I'm not a scientist.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.