Quotes About Obedience

The orthodox view has the following reading: '1) A robot may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.

The coup gave them a chance to put into practice what they had learned in their barracks: blind obedience, the use of arms, and other skills that soldiers can master once they silence the scruples of their hearts.

la guerra es la obra de arte de los militares, la culminacion de sus entrenamientos, el broche dorado de su profesion. No estan hechos para brillar en la paz. El Golpe les dio la oportunidad de poner en practica lo que habfan aprendido en los cuarteles, la obediencia ciega, el manejo de las armas y otras artes que los soldados pueden dominar cuando acallan los escrupulos del corazon

Patriarchy is imposed with aggression; it demands obedience and punishes those who defy it.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

Here am I; send me.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Be God or let God.

You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

Children should be seen and not heard.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!