If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
Arno Gruen
#455
#393
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#383
Such is the war that you have to sustain: a war of labour against capital; a war of liberty against authority; a war of the producer against the non-producer; a war of equality against privilege.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
#310
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
Louis de Saint-Just
#288
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler
#229
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire
#215
There’s a leak, there’s a leak in the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves and lawyers
Tom Waits, God’s Away On Business
#174
They must find it difficult … those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Gerald Massey
