Obey Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

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 actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey 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.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

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.

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.

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.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

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

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

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?

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

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