No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

Absolute proof of absolute knowledge is impossible.

There is no authority for God’s existence except the inward conviction that is born of mystical experience.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man’s mental or moral economy.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

...when it comes to the issue of life and death I have no authority. Only God can give life and only He has the right to take it away.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

There is no trustworthy evidence as to a god's absolute existence.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The physical capacity to coerce others can never generate a moral obligation to obey the dictates of [government] power.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if that authority were divine

The authority of the State is not subject to negotiation, or compromise, or to divide its terrain with other moral or religious principles that might interfere in consciousness. The authority of the State has force and is true authority if, within consciousness, it is entirely unconditioned.

No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.