“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Oscar Wilde
“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.”
David Hare
“Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.”
Stephanie Coontz
“Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
