Quotes About Obedience

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

Authoritarianism—the familial, social, and political obsession with order, control, and obedience—is rooted in violence and coercion.

Obedeci. Gosto de obedecer quando está em causa uma mulher interessante.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Uncle knows best. -All the Lost Boys

In a world without meaningful authority, all "acts" are coercive.

The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged the form of God for the form of a servant, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto the death of the cross.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

L'ansia del consumo è un'ansia di obbedienza a un ordine non pronunciato. Ognuno in Italia sente l'ansia, degradante, di essere uguale agli altri nel consumare, nell'essere felice, nell'essere libero: perché questo è l'ordine che egli ha inconsciamente ricevuto, a cui «deve» obbedire, a patto di sentirsi diverso. Mai la diversità è stata una colpa così spaventosa come in questo periodo di tolleranza.

When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

The sergeant is the Army.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

On the morning of the July 24, Pioneer Day, Dan got up, prayed, and felt prompted by the Lord to saw the barrel and stock off a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun that he had been storing at his mother's house.

As an obedient Saint, he had already pledged not to drink, smoke, take illegal drugs, ingest caffeine, masturbate, or engage in premarital sex.

In the morning he called together five trusted Mormon leaders and, "with broken spirit," informed them that God had revealed to him the necessity of relinquishing "the practice of that principle for which the brethren had been willing to lay down their lives." To the shock and utter horror of the other men in the room, President Woodruff explained that "it was the will of the Lord" that the church stop sanctioning the doctrine of plural marriage.