Quotes About Obedience

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

It is the duty of God's disciples to strike you dead

There was a village saying, much repeated: "God said behave, but He didn't say how.

When told to do something, he tended to "obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the order which that superior would have given if he had known what he was talking about.

someone exceedingly loyal, a true yes-man, a cog who knew when to turn, when to stay still.

Hank must have been convincing, because Mudd and Syron didn't resist.

whenever the legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience,

Shut up! Sit Down!

It's all so confusing this brutal abusing They blacken your eyes and then apologize Be daddy's good girl, and don't tell mommy a thing Be a good little boy, and you'll get a new toy Tell grandma you fell from the swing

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.

Courageous leaders obey God rather than men and will be rewarded, they are honest law-abiding citizens.

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

He that cannot obey cannot command.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.