Obey Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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.

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.