Authority Defiance Quotes

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents. It's rebellion against the system. It's rebellion against society.

Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.

Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.

I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break rules and defy authority. . . . She rids herself of the "oughts" and "musts" that convert every minor infraction into a sin of omission or commission. It certainly does not occur to her or to her family that by questioning the moral standards she erected as a child she is taking the first steps in her journey toward a firmer, more reasonable, less harsh, more ethical form of conscience.

My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said

I'm not really good with authority, but you know, when the doctors said that I won't be playing professional tennis again, it was another, sort of another thing in my life where I'm going to prove someone else wrong.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.