(91 quotes found)
“The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly”
Thomas Kempis
“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
Bible
“I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.”
Edward Gibbon
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is much safer to obey, than to govern.”
Thomas a Kempis
“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; / And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; / Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
“If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a "prone position" on the night of his famous encounter with Los Angeles police, 58 people would be alive today, $16 billion would be circulating in the economy and four dedicated LAPD officers who were working to the book that night would not have been forced to endure two trials (the first had acquitted them) and had their careers destroyed to appease the liberal conscience. But liberals had to make their point.”
David Horowitz
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed”
“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Those who know the least obey the best.”
George Farquhar
