Obey Quotes

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

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

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

I would not like a king who could obey.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.