Famous quotes containing the words public and/or authority:
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)