Quotes About Obedience

the Yale professor Stanley Milgram's infamous 1961 experiment sought to investigate the extent to which ordinary people would obey the orders of figures in authority to inflict pain on others. On one side of a room divided by a one-way mirror, a scientist ordered a volunteer to deliver electrical shocks of ever-increasing strength to a person strapped to a chair on the other side of the room whenever she or he gave wrong answers to questions read from a questionnaire.

No, but–" There are no 'buts' here, Miss Cleary.  If you are to remain a lab assistant here – in fact, if you are to remain a student at this institution – you will follow the rules, or you will be out of here faster than you can blink your baby blue eyes.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. The strongest is never strong enough to be the master, Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, unless he translates strength into right and obedience into duty. Only democracy has that authority in the world today.

Ä°ster var olsunlar ister var olmas?nlar, biz tanr?lar?n kölesiyiz.

es decir las órdenes, las costumbres y los caprichos.

En muchos casos, llamarle a uno bueno no indica más que docilidad, tendencia a no llevar la contraria y a no causar problemas.

He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.

I am the menial, at the beck and squawk of any feathered worthy who wants service.

verse 4 in chapter 14, for instance: "Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own kurios (master) he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Kurios (Master or Lord) is able to make him stand" (NIV).

becomes clear that whereas life in Christ results in obedience, this "obedience of faith" (Rom. 1:5; 16:26) is not accomplished by a human choice of one of two ways.25 There is a decisive difference between a call to obey and a transfer to a new world

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.