Obedience Quotes

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

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.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which youdisagree as well as those with which you agree.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

Every good servant does not all commands.

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

Through obedience learn to command.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

I never expect a soldier to think.