Quotes About Obedience

We often weep beneath Love's cross, But when she calls we her obey.

All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things weren't getting me any love.

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Communities could not subsist without foresight to discern, as well as exertion to effectuate the measures requisite for their safety. Men capable of discerning those measures, are made for authority; and men merely capable of effectuating them by bodily labor, are made for obedience.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

99% of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I aimed to be a leader someday, but I knew it was important to learn obedience as well.

Most of us who were cooperatively bringing out the Masses were agreed upon that. Some channel of protest must be safeguarded for those who had not been stampeded into dumb obeisance to the world's war-makers.

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

Because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority, it is God who raises up a king. It is God that sets one down.

There is no good time to break the law.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...

Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs?