Quotes About Obedience

The old form of voluntary servitude was that of free men using that freedom paradoxically to turn themselves into serfs. The new voluntary servitude is that of men obeying the demand that they be free.

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Perché l'impulso del solo appetito è schiavitù, e l'obbedienza alla legge che noi stessi ci siamo dati è libertà.

So the puppy (the future George III) won't be bewolfenbütteled, he says. I'll teach him whether to defy me. I say he shall be bewolfenbütteled, and like it! (George II on a proposal to marry his grandson to a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Plaidy.)

If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.

T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?

Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir.

l'impulsion du seul appétit est esclavage, et l'obéissance à la loi qu'on s'est prescrite est liberté.

mientras que un pueblo se ve forzado a obedecer, hace bien, si obedece; tan pronto como puede sacudir el yugo, si lo sacude, obra mucho mejor; pues recobrando su libertad por el mismo derecho con que se la han quitado, o tiene motivos para recuperarla, o no tenían ninguno para privarle de ella los que tal hicieron. Pero el orden social es un derecho sagrado que sirve de base a todos los demás. Este derecho, sin embargo, no viene de la naturaleza; luego se funda en convenciones.

pour régner; c'est une science qu'on ne possède jamais moins qu'après l'avoir trop apprise, et qu'on acquiert mieux en obéissant qu'en commandant.

Según esto, ¿en qué consiste un derecho que se acaba cuando la fuerza cesa? Si se ha de obedecer por fuerza, no hay necesidad de obedecer por deber; y cuando a uno no le pueden forzar a obedecer, ya no está obligado a hacerlo.

THE STRONGEST IS NEVER STRONG enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is really laid down as a fundamental principle.

Una vez libres los hijos de la obediencia que deben al padre, y el padre de los cuidados que debe a los hijos, recobran todos igualmente su independencia. Si continúan unidos luego, ya no lo es naturalmente, sino voluntariamente, y la familia misma no se mantiene sino por convención.

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

God has work for you to do.

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

You can't be that good; you work for me.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.