Established Authority Quotes

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

The boys have been running Washington for a long-ass time. We're talking 200-some-odd years.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother. That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to, though.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.