“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”

“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”

“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”