obedience Quotes

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

― Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

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“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre; let us leave this commission to men who are more obedient and more supple.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“It's not through obedience that men go out of their way to get killed—nor through obedience that they kill. … Except cowards.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

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“But we must remember that good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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