#Obedience Quotes

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

“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.”

“Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.”

“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”

“Every good servant does not all commands.”

“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.”

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

“Let them obey that knows not how to rule.”

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

“On pain of death, no person be so bold.”

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

“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.”

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

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

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

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

“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.”

“Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.”

“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]?"”

“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.”

“Obedience alone gives the right to command.”

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

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

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

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

“Through obedience learn to command.”

“Always obey your parents - when they are present.”

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

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

“Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.”

“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.”

“You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.”

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

“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.”

“A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.”

“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.”

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

“Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.”

“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.”

“Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.”

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

“A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.”

“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.”

“There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.”

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

“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.”

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

“The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.”

“He who eats my bread, does my will.”

“A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.”