“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
Douglas Bader
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello
“Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.”
Walter Bagehot
“Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
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