(118 quotes found)
“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)”
quran
“And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.”
Bible
“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
“Attend constantly to prayers and to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Allah. (The Cow 2.238)”
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.”
John Ruskin
“The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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
“All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.”
Alexander Herzen
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