6 Albert Einstein Quotes on Authority

Albert Einstein quotes on authority

22. To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

45. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

76. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections.

167. To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

255. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

280. I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.