Obey Quotes

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

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.

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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.

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.

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

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

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.

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

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.