(118 quotes found)
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it”
Ernest Hemingway
“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello
“Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”
Martin Gardner
“God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.”
David Hare
“Obedience alone gives the right to command”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
Robert E. Lee
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