In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought […]
Obey-obedience Quotes
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may, therefore, subject them to government.
Their’s not to make reply, Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to do and die.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm. We are all responsible for our own actions. We cannot blame society if we disobey the law. We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.
“She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,” said Luce… “I wonder if anyone is born to obey,” said Isabel. “That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.”
Obedience. A religion of slaves. A religion of intellectual death. I like it. Don’t ask questions, don’t think, obey the Word of the Lord – as it has been conveniently brought to you by a man in a Rolls with a heavy Rolex on his wrist. I like that job! Where can I sign up?
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
