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Susan B. Anthony: “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Abraham Lincoln: “No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.
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Marshall Rosenberg: “You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
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Mortimer Adler: “Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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Theodor Adorno: “The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
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Albert Einstein: “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Anita Hill: “What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
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Gloria Steinem: “The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
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Julia Ward Howe: “I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.”  more
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Cyrus H. Curtis: “There are two kinds of [people] who never amount to much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
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Carl Sandburg: “I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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Rabindranath Tagore: “Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
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Carl Sagan: “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Molly Ivins: “What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Kenneth Blanchard: “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Mark Twain: “In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”  more
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: “You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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Mark Twain: “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Stanley Milgram: “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
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Leonardo da Vinci: “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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Leonard H. Robbins: “How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.
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Henry Steele Commager: “Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
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James Russell Lowell: “He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
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