“I am ashamed to think of how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

—Oscar Wilde

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”

—Thomas Huxley

“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”

—Henry S. Haskins