obedience Quotes

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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“I'm of your making much more than you ever were of mine. I'm the man who married one woman because another one told him to.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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“Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,—and the people glory in their great men! These are for them the masters of the hour.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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“Yet command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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