"...Authority is anti-human, simply from a philosophical perspective:

We learn very early that authority is a thing to be accepted, not to be examined. But if we look at it directly, we see that authority is an outsourcing of thinking. Once authority speaks, our mental processes stop, and we do as it directs. In other words, authority, to whatever degree we accept it, diminishes us (...)

Authority makes us less conscious, less alive. It makes us morally and intellectually blind"

by Paul Rosenberg in "The New Age of Intelligence".