“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.” ThinkingEvilIndividualTroubleHonestBecomingAuthorityBlindObedienceInquiryLikelihoodBlind Obedience Author:Charles Kimball
“I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.” LittlesProblemSchoolGuyGirlBitsBlackTroubleCarAuthorityLoudGradesJacketsLeatherMotorcycleFingernailsAfter SchoolLeather Jackets Author:Melissa Marr
“Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.” StillsImportantSometimesCultureGirlFatherCareersPlansTroubleAuthorityAchievementDaughterEncouragementDoersThat Girl Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence
“Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.” GivingFeelsMayChildrenKidsParentTroubleFiguresParticularDisciplineAuthorityGuiltMaintainingDeprivedRequestUnreasonableSingle ParentAuthority Figures Author:Marge M. Kennedy
“I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.” ThinkingCausesTroubleDisciplineAuthorityManagementResistance Author:Hal Holbrook
“In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.” KidsSchoolTroubleStudentsAuthorityHigh SchoolBiggerClockBombsDevicesTexasArrestedHigh School Students Author:Conan O'Brien
“As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.” ShouldEndsReasonWifeTroubleHusbandAuthorityCatholicInstanceRelyAbandonBishopsRely Upon Book:Bertrand Russell's Best Source: Bertrand Russell's Best