Quotes About Obedience

Edd, fetch me a block.

The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.

When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.

Stop whimpering and snapping at me, I'm sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.

Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.

Remain if you will, but know that we shall require your obedience.

It is every man's duty to remain loyal to his rightful King, even if the lord he serves proves false.

Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.

A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Am I where Our Lord would have me be? Twenty times a day I ask this question. For the Master whom we serve not only judges our life but shares it, takes it upon Himself. It would be far easier to satisfy a geometrical and moralistic God.

The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. —George Bernanos

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Like lambs to the slaughter.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.