Obedience Quotes

Between loyalty and resistance

This set of Obedience quotes treats the idea as a kind of price paid for justice and order, while also questioning blind compliance in war and media. Related reading: Blind quotes.

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

Quotes by Aeschylus

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Quotes by William Penn

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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Quotes by William Penn

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be...

Quotes by Theodor Mommsen

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

Quotes by Shehbaz Sharif

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

Quotes by Rodrigo Duterte

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

Quotes by R. Lee Ermey

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Quotes by Jonathan Mayhew

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Quotes by John Taylor Gatto

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Quotes by John Gresham Machen

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Quotes by John Bradshaw

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Quotes by Jerry B. Jenkins

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Some entries argue that resisting tyranny is itself a form of obedience to higher principle. See also Blind Obedience and Education quotes.