Sentence examples for obey authority from inspiring English sources

Why do individuals obey authority?

Chinese are taught to obey authority and are often loath to disagree with their bosses.

"It is the majority who conform, who comply, who obey authority," Dr. Zimbardo says.

Dav argued that even if authority itself is not respected in China, "people do obey authority and respect the value of authority".

Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale University, conducted the most famous (and infamous) of these studies designed to understand the limits of a person's willingness to obey authority.

Larry Rohter (NYT) ECUADOR: BLUNT U.S. WARNING -- Under Secretary of State Thomas R. Pickering told military officers during a visit to Quito that they are "obligated to obey authority and not involve themselves in politics".

The Problem of the Loyal Henchmen arises when people willingly obey authorities everyone knows to be evil.

We don't obey authorities as we once did and we no longer take our religious identities off the shelf.

MM Lee noted that he had learned from living through three and a half years of Japanese occupation in Singapore that people will obey authorities who can deny them food, clothing and medicine.

"In Rwandan history, everyone obeys authority.

In church, Mr. Romney frequently spoke about obeying authority, the danger of rationalizing misbehavior and God's fixed standards.