Quotes About Authority

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

I had a whole new respect for directors.

You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget; they just get too excited.

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.