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Obedience Quotes

"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."
Sun Tzu
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place."
Vladimir Putin
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
C. S. Lewis
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"
Niccolo Machiavelli
"There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way'"
C. S. Lewis
"Duty is ours; results are God's"
John Quincy Adams
"Resist much, obey little"
Walt Whitman
"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey"
Soren Kierkegaard
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
Noam Chomsky
"Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it"
Thomas Paine
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
Noam Chomsky
"Christ's holiness and his perfect obedience were thus imputed to believers."
Jonathan Edwards
"Faith and obedience are bound up in the same bundle"
Jerry Bridges
"The Holy Spirit enables us to respond to God in obedience to His will"
Jerry Bridges
"Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
George Orwell
"Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent"
Thomas Paine
"The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents – because they have a tame child-creature in their house"
Frank Zappa
"It is the mind that commands the body and always obeys when the mind asks."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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