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Quotes About Obey

If then the people promises simply to obey, by that very act it dissolves itself and loses what makes it a people; the moment a master exists, there is no longer a Sovereign, and from that moment the body politic has ceased to exist.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.
~ Steve Scalise
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
~ Victor Hugo
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
~ Nathan Hale
In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what.
~ Gus Grissom
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
~ Tommy Chong
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.
~ Paul Bowles
If your money is not helping you make your life better, then something is wrong. Chances are you're not making a connection between your values and the role obey plays in your life.
~ David Bach
We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks. But their souls must be seen by only one man, and they obey not unwillingly, and consent to remain at home as our slaves—ministering to us and doing drudgery for us.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
If your mind dislike anything obey it
~ William Shakespeare
I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin.
~ William Shakespeare
we must obey the time.
~ William Shakespeare
We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as 'tis.
~ William Shakespeare
But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I have it from the highest American authorities that it is their wish that their troops should receive direct orders. They say their Army has been framed more on Prussian lines than on the more smooth British lines, and that American commanders expect to receive positive orders, which they will immediately obey.
~ Winston S. Churchill
and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law. And is
~ Xenophon
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
~ Cicero
Go to bed," he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.
~ Cindy Gerard
And that is why you ought not dramatically vow to obey someone. They seldom ask for what you hope they will.
~ Holly Black
So long as I live, you will obey this.
~ Holly Black
FIRST YOU PILLAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM.
~ Linda Howard
This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
~ Joshua Slocum