OBEDIENCE QUOTES
quotations about obedience
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part II
Any fool can "obey" an order ... the clever thing is to interpret it.
WILLIAM BOYD
Waiting for Sunrise
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 30:17
The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity.
TARA LEIGH COBBLE
Orange Jumpsuit: Letters to the God of Freedom
Obedience is a hard profession.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Nicomède
Obedience is a disciple's first duty.
IGNATIUS LOYALA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility.
THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus Vitovnica
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied; the shell without a kernel is not fit for store.
SAADI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.
ARISTOTLE
Metaphysics
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
JOHN BRADSHAW
inscription on his tombstone
When you obey your superiors, you instruct your inferiors.
R. DODSLEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
THOMAS FULLER
An Introduction to Prudence
Blind obedience is a sign of weakness. Faithful obedience is a sign of strength.
BOB LONSBERRY
A Various Language
I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey.
AYN RAND
Anthem
A blind obedience in some cases doth well; but it doth far better when it is led with the eyes of discretion.
JOSEPH HALL
Some Specialties in the Life of Bishop Hall
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
JOHN PIPER
The Pleasures of God
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
BANKSY
Wall and Piece
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.
WILHELM KEITEL
attributed, "The Nuremberg Interviews"