Obedience Quotes - page 3

Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. (Erich Fromm)
...the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal. View quote
Erich Raeder
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity. View quote
Pierre Corneille
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws-this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire, [...]. View quote
Noam Chomsky
They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience. (C. S. Lewis)
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage... View quote
John Locke
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. View quote
Zoltan Istvan
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. View quote
Bede Griffiths
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield. View quote
Frances Power Cobbe
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power. (Spencer W. Kimball)
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. View quote
Adam Clarke