Albert Einstein Quotes on Authority
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To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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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.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.