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obedience Quotes and Quotations
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Douglas Bader | top
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. Walter Bagehot | top
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley | top
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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. Bruno Bettelheim | top
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Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. Marsha Blackburn | top
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. Dietrich Bonhoeffer | top
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. Nadia Boulanger | top
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Anatole Broyard | top
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. Thomas Carlyle | top
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noam Chomsky | top
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Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. Edwin Louis Cole | top
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. Annie Dillard | top
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci | top
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. Augustus Hare | top
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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. Charles Hodge | top
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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. Jerry B. Jenkins | top
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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. Lajos Kossuth | top
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I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. John Gresham Machen | top
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time. Kamisese Mara | top
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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. Constance Baker Motley | top
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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. Gary North | top
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I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process. Edward James Olmos | top
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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. Mary Richards | top
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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen | top
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience. Ed Townsend | top
