Obedience Quotes

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. - Marsha Blackburn

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. - Thomas Carlyle

While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable criminal, and expect his loyalty and devotion. - Liane Norman

Where democracy has been lost, people take things into their own hands. I'm not suggesting major public disobedience is where this is going, but I can tell you that people are very, very angry and they're not going to stop, absolutely not going to stop. - Dennis Perry

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. - Benjamin Disraeli

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. - Carrie P. Snow

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek. - Jim Fiebig

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. - Charles Horton Cooley