(128 quotes found)
“Attend constantly to prayers and to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Allah. (The Cow 2.238)”
quran
“Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”
Aristotle
“And they were not enjoined anything except that they should serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, upright, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and that is the right religion. (The Clear Evidence 98.5)”
“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.”
Bede Griffiths
“The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.”
John Ruskin
“There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.”
Anatole Broyard
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.”
Jean Baudrillard
“The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.”
Henry David Thoreau
