Authority

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

French proverbs

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

Be the chief but never the lord.

Lao Tzu

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson