Quotes About Obedience

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

There's only a certain amount of times you can tell somebody what they should or shouldn't be doing. If they don't want to take it on board there's little you can do.

A true lover should be Behave like a slave. Be ready to face every conditions, which are given by Love.

He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules

The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?

An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's contention of equality. They read passages like Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, and Likewise, ye wives, be in subection to your own husbands.

We so willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever, and are so ready to usurp upon dominion, every one does so naturally aspire to liberty and power, that no utility derived from the wit or valour of those he employs ought to be so dear to a superior as a downright and sincere obedience. TO obey more upon the account of understanding than of subjection, is to corrupt the office of command.

Our goal in raising you was not that you'd be happy, but that you'd behave. You've

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

Because my demon told me to" isn't a generally accepted reason

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

If you will pardon my saying so, Tharkay said, you will never satisfy them on that point: the last thing you or Temeraire will ever give anyone is quiet obedience. Have you considered it might be better not to try?

I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you

JANE," LAURENCE SAID, "will you marry me?" "Why, no, dear fellow," she said, looking up in surprise from the chair where she was drawing on her boots. "It would be a puzzle to give you orders, you know, if I had vowed to obey; it could hardly be comfortable. But it is very handsome of you to have offered," she added, and standing up kissed him heartily, before she put on her coat.

But female fat is the subject of public passion, and women feel guilty about female fat, because we implicitly recognize that under the myth, women's bodies are not our own but society's, and that thinness us not a private aesthetic, but hunger a social concession exacted by the community. A cultural cixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.