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Quotes about Obedience


Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Nadia Boulanger

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Havelock Ellis

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Unattributed Author

Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

Thomas ã Anonymous

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Nadia Boulanger

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

Arthur Koestler

Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.

Ludwig Von Mises

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Unattributed Author

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Edmund Burke

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church for divine services. His prayer that afternoon was: 'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.'

George Washington

It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Francis Beaumont and John Bible

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