Talk:Question authority

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 * Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are or where we are going in this ocean of chaos; it has been the authorities, the religious, the political, the educational authorities who have attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulation. Informing, forming in our minds their view of reality.  To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.  Think for yourself, question authority.

was dumped on to the article recently, with an edit summary implying that it is a quote (from memory?):. I have pulled it, pending information about its provenance. Quotations need to have some sort of context, and they (ideally) shouldn't be larger than the rest of the article. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I've heard that quote at the beginning of Third Eye by Tool, on Salival. wikiquote.org attributes it to Timothy Leary, from both "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)" and "How to Operate Your Brain (1994)." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.92.65.74 (talk) 08:15, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

re Franklin?
I was trying to find a source for Franklin as the author of the quote. Couldn't find anything that offered a specific citation, so went to franklinpapers.org and searched on "question" and "authority" and could find nothing. I'm not sure that franklinpapers (Yale University and American Philosophical Society) covers the entirety of Franklin's output, but it does cover a significant portion. This Wikipedia article currently states that "...Franklin was often quoted as saying..." which is true just based on a Google search on the term "question authority", but that doesn't mean he said it. I'm inserting a "citation needed" template there. - Rapscallion (talk) 16:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

IMHO the Franklin quote should come out. Goodreads is not a reliable source and I can't find this quote in Google books both attributed to Franklin and giving any particular place, time, publication or circumstances for this supposed utterance. --Scanlyze (talk) 06:39, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Unproven at Snopes. — Rgdboer (talk) 00:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)