Authority Respect Quotes

What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

I just want everybody to follow the law.

WHITE man’s government ... should not be scoffed at; that it is a prejudice in the country that no man has a right to disregard

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.

If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.

I always remember the teachings of our ancestors: respect for God, teacher, government, and both parents. Even after I became president, I have not changed in this matter in the slightest. I hold these teachings in high esteem, and I believe in their truth.

As people, we have to take the law's side. We have to stand behind the police, not behind the criminal.

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, 'No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don't agree with you.'

You never tear your President down.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

The bounds of society would be dissolved, the harmony of the world confounded, and the order of nature subverted, if reverence, respect and obedience might be refused to those whom the constitution has vested with the highest authority.

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

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

You don’t need to admire power, but you must always, however grudgingly, respect and understand it.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Whenever the Government appears in arms it ought to appear a Hercules, and inspire respect by the display of strength.

My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

I want to sing the praises of the U.S. Supreme Court police because they're always fantastic. They always do a good job.

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

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.