Obey-obedience Quotes

A life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one’s own need to think.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Obedience is in a way the mother of all virtues.

When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek.