"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"It's not lying when you do it to officers!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister?Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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"She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

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"Benevolence is often very peremptory."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John."

Alfred Noyes, English Poet

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"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."

Don Bluth, American Artist

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"No authority is higher than reality."

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, American Author

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