Quotes About Obedience

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Don't leave your teen with the choice between obediently toeing the line or acting like a lunatic to exert some level of control over life.

Desire is the only justification for obedience.

Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.

He is commanded to be strong, with his only equipment the Word of God and implicit obedience to it! Such was Christ's equipment.

Independence is not achieved simply by not obeying mother, father, state, and the like. Independence is not the same as disobedience. Independence is possible only if, and according to the degree to which, man actively grasps the world, is related to it, and thus becomes one with it. There is no independence and no freedom unless man arrives at the stage of complete inner activity and productivity.

Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

Ich bin jung, ich bin zwanzig Jahre alt; aber ich kenne vom Leben nichts anderes als die Verzweiflung, den Tod, die Angst und die Verkettung sinnlosester Oberflächlichkeit mit einem Abgrund des Leidens. Ich sehe, dass Völker gegeneinander getrieben werden und sich schweigend, unwissend, töricht, gehorsam, unschuldig töten.

that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill. We became soldiers with eagerness and enthusiasm, but they have done everything to knock that out of us. After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole

Cilv?ks var b?t atbild?gs vien?gi par to, ko pats nodar?jis. Un ar? tikai tad, ja tas nav dar?ts p?c pav?les.

recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—

They will breed either dislike or a slave mentality—(Rebellion in War time being out of the question!)

Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.

children are trained to want to do as the society says they have to do.

men worship and fear power and so give their loyalty to those who dispense it.

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?

It's only orders between us.

he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

Direi só o que tu desejares que eu diga e só farei o que tu desejares que euu faça, e tu unca quererás outra, pois não? --------------------- Catherine em O Adeus Às Armas Ernest Hemingway

Humility and obedience are two painfully misunderstood virtues that are really the arts of listening. Humility involves the refusal to coerce, the rejection of all attempts to control others.