Top 89 Respect Authority Quotes
#3. I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
Benjamin Carson
#4. Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority."
"Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.
John Flanagan
#5. I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Charles De Gaulle
#6. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
Georges St-Pierre
#7. Just because an institution gives you authority doesn't mean you gain any respect - not one ounce - from the people you're supposed to manage.
Julia Kent
#8. A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.
H.L. Mencken
#9. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
#10. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur
#11. Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Stephen Covey
#12. We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
Alberto Gonzales
#13. There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.
Simone De Beauvoir
#14. Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.
B.A. Santamaria
#15. The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
Helen Andelin
#16. Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"
Richard P. Feynman
#17. I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.
Marco Rubio
#18. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.
A.J. Darkholme
#19. Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
Jackson Katz
#20. There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.
Bryant McGill
#21. I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.
Sharon Salzberg
#22. Guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority."
"well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
James Patterson
#23. Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.
Stephen Colbert
#24. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
Nelson Mandela
#26. A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destructive, just as a freedom that did not respect the freedom of others or find the common measure of our respective liberties would become anarchy and destroy authority.
Pope Benedict XVI
#27. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found
Bertrand Russell
#28. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Anne Rice
#29. As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.
Jonas Gahr Store
#30. Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim
#31. I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!
Rebecca McKinsey
#32. Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
#33. Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
Gerry Spence
#34. The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
Tom Robbins
#35. A father who doesn't show respect to his wife, a parent who is disrespectful to their child's teacher or to the cashier in the store must come to expect disrespect from his own child as that is what he has learnt is acceptable behavior by the figures in authority in his life.
David Abudram
#36. Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
Wm. Paul Young
#37. 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.
Roman Coppola
#39. Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.
Peter Senge
#40. We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside ... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.
John Ashcroft
#41. Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.
James E. Faust
#42. Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It's like building trust. You don't instantly have trust, it has to be earned.
Mike Krzyzewski
#43. The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Once again, my dad knew something I didn't. Looking back, I realize it wasn't just I was Asian. I was a loud-mounthed, brash, broken Asian who had no respect for authority in any form, wether it was a parent, teacher, or country. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either. (148)
Eddie Huang
#45. Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.
Hyman Rickover
#46. I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.
Fulton J. Sheen
#48. I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
Erica Goros
#49. Think of your goal as giving your child a kind of inoculation, providing him with the unconditional love, respect, trust, and sense of perspective that will serve to immunize him against the most destructive effects of an overcontrolling environment or an unreasonable authority figure.
Alfie Kohn
#50. We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.
Thomas Paine
#51. -You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
Joseph Heller
#52. Even if you are a pompous ass with no respect for authority, you're worth fifty men, and I mean to see you in my army."
"That was an incredibly backhanded compliment."
"I meant every word.
Brian McClellan
#53. As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
Bob McNair
#54. Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
Marcus Garvey
#55. I really didn't think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#56. Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.
Vera Nazarian
#57. For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
Red Smith
#58. Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.
Frans De Waal
#59. Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.
Mitchell Baker
#60. Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument,
Isabel Allende
#61. The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#62. When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their authority can be established.
Huananzi
#63. True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Stephen Covey
#64. Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect
Irwin Federman
#65. I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
#66. Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J.M. Roberts
#67. Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
Joseph Joubert
#68. I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day
until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
Sigmund Freud
#69. They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the Great War, then a few monolithic sculptures representing Ideal Virtues (Patriotism, Respect for Authority, the Dutiful Wife).
Jonathan Stroud
#70. A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.
Petr Skrabanek
#71. True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.
Myles Munroe
#72. I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was.
Harry Truman
#73. What you need is sustained outrage ... there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
Molly Ivins
#74. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
Mikhail Bakunin
#75. Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.
Alan Keyes
#76. Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.
Baltasar Gracian
#77. A Liberal authority is someone or something that earns society's respect through making things happen that unify society and suppress its enemy.
Jonathan Haidt
#78. Life in this form is one-time chance, death is the inevitable consequence for anyone who is born. The record of one's death is the primary respect one could render to the lost one. Tears of all relatives of missing people are indeed flowing due to this invaluable action by the authority.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#79. Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
#80. Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
#81. Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.
L. Neil Smith
#82. Why do you always make it sound like everything was better before I was born?"
"It's not you, Mitchell. There was just more civility back then. We still had respect for authority, I guess. This is what happens when no one trusts the people in power.
Brian K. Vaughan
#83. Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
#84. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
Jane Austen
#85. [T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
Glenn Reynolds
#86. I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
#87. Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
Jonathan Haidt
#88. The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of Jesus that it finds at once its lay and its religious consecration.
Kadmi Cohen
#89. You may obey a leader who has power and authority, but you will not strive to serve her or the cause of the organization unless you respect and care for her in addition to the ones with whom you serve.
Dan B. Allender
