Quotes About Authority

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

My government will respect the will of the people.

Respect me, or put me to death.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect

Brutality creates respect.

The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.