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Quotes About Obedience

No creo que cuestionar las cosas sea una enfermedad. La obediencia ciega sin cuestionamientos, es la enfermedad.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you're above your boss, that's not reality.
~ Perez Hilton
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
~ Montesquieu
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
~ Bede Griffiths
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
~ Taylor Swift
I was not cut out to be a rebel.
~ Gene Tierney
My character on 'Veep' doesn't have an ounce of rebellion.
~ Tony Hale
You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.
~ Hudson Taylor
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Everyone has to be receptive to the decisions of the ANC because that is the political center. You have got to accept the decisions, and you also have to accept the direction that you are given by the ANC.
~ Cyril Ramaphosa
The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time.
~ Tony Evans
There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.
~ Alexis Bledel
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
~ Charles Dickens
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
~ Ava Gardner
If God had me run for something, I would do it in a heartbeat.
~ Mike Lindell
I wouldn't want to get Shaq's mom mad, I'll tell you that much. If she told me to do something, I would do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't want her mad at me. That woman is serious.
~ Big Show
I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.
~ Patty Hearst
I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.
~ Mauricio Macri
When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.
~ George Fox
The entire Strict Father model is based on the further assumption that the exercise of authority is itself moral; that is, it is moral to reward obedience and punish disobedience. I will refer to this most basic assumption as the Morality of Reward and Punishment. Reward
~ George Lakoff
Rewards given to those who have not earned them through competition are thus immoral. They violate the entire system. They remove the incentive to become self-disciplined and they remove the need for obedience to authority. But
~ George Lakoff