Quotes about Obedience

“Those who know the least obey the best.”

“It is much safer to obey, than to govern.”

“Every good servant does not all commands.”

“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”

“The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.”

“Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.”

“Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.”

“There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.”

“No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.”

“The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”

“The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”

“It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.”

“There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.”

“Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

“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.”