Quotes About Obedience

Anywhere attacking, I will go. Where the manager says to go, I will try and do the job.

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

No, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro... —Ellos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)

By the end of the class, Lucy was coming when Bobby called her. Butch was

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think.

If one did not know how to follow orders, one would not know how to give them.

As distinct from civil disobedience, Intelligent Disobedience works within a system rather than challenging the system itself.

Leaders who value good outcomes more than assertion of their own authority understand that serious errors are avoided by the use of Intelligent Disobedience.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look at anything, and not letting up on you till you get over wanting to.

Beati coloro che accettano senza discutere la disciplina in cui vivono, che obbediscono liberamente agli ordini dei capi...o coloro che sono pervenuti, per vie proprie, a convinzioni chiare e incrollabili...Coloro che riposano su questi comodi letti dogmatici sono vittime di forme di miopia autoindotta e portano paraocchi che possono anche dare l'appagamento, ma non certo la comprensione di cosa significa essere uomo.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

Better no law than laws not enforced.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.