Compliance with Authority Quotes

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

The way of obedience is the way of blessing.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move.