Obey Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

Those who know the least obey the best.

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

Learn to obey before you command.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

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.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

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

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.