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Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: “What you say about me is what I am” is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect.

—Stephanie Marston

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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

—Albert Einstein

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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

—Tom Robbins

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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

—Abbie Hoffman

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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime.

—Emma Goldman

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

—Thomas H. Huxley

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What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement [of the adolescent] in the decision making.

—Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine

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What you need is sustained outrage. . . . There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

—Molly Ivins

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

—A. J. Ayer

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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

—George W. Bush

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.

—Sophocles

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Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

—Thomas Haliburton

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There is no fettering of authority.

—William Shakespeare

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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

—Yugoslav Proverb

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