(128 quotes found)
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.”
Robert Benchley
“Obedience alone gives the right to command”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.”
David Hare
“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 to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
Robert E. Lee
“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.”
A. W. Tozer
“Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself”
“The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.”
Angelina Grimke
