- Nov 07, 2020
Obedience Quotes
Between loyalty and resistance
This set of Obedience quotes treats the idea as a kind of price paid for justice and order, while also questioning blind compliance in war and media. Related reading: Blind quotes.
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- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
- Drill
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
- Fidelity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020