(128 quotes found)
“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
“Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek”
Jim Fiebig
“Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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
“For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
“Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt”
Benjamin Franklin
“An obedient wife commands her husband”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us”
Francis Quarles
