He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in the world.
Obey-obedience Quotes
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
There is no obedience worth anything which is not the child of love. Obedience which is mechanical and forced is dread.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls – whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.
Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
Let us therefore learn (as I have said before) so to behave ourselves in obedience to God that men also on their parts be friendly towards us. For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person’s duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it.
