“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobed...” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quote

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.