“I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.” My OwnAuthorityConclusion Author:Sigmund Freud
“So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.” WorldLastsChanceMy OwnSeeingBrotherAuthorityConvincedAround The WorldChineseVisaLast Chance Author:Anna Louise Strong
“I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.” InterestMy OwnAuthorityJudgmentContraryRevelationsControlledPolygamy Author:Oliver Cowdery
“It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.” WellsMayPhilosophyHelpingPoliticalMy OwnViewsQualityCasesEconomicEventsAuthorityGainsCapacityResponseConvictionPoint Of ViewRepressionPersonal ExperiencesLives Of Others Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!” BelieveDoeWould BeBeliefSpeakMy OwnAcceptingDivineAuthorityConcernedAbsolutesBlindFoolishCertaintyRevelationsBlind FaithWarrantsAbsolute CertaintyDivine RevelationPersonal Beliefs Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.” WayMayOrderMy OwnTheoryAuthorityGood FaithExecuting Book:Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50 Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50
“I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.” KnowsWritingWellsMeanI CanEndsMy OwnFictionAuthorityDetailsSurfaceMy Own Life Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie