Obedience was an obligation falling on every villager.
) Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender.
Rita Rudner A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009 We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
(1929 - 1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
There are books and obedience teachers that would have taught you how to teach me to go to the door.
The Caliph, accustomed though he was to instant obedience, guessed something of what was passing in the young man's mind, and sought to put him at his ease.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961) The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Rita Rudner A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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.
Then the girl went to the stove where the animals were lying, and petted the cock and hen, and stroked their smooth feathers with her hand, and caressed the brindled cow between her horns, and when, in obedience to the old man's orders, she had made ready some good soup, and the bowl was placed upon the table, she said, am I to eat as much as I want, and the good animals to have nothing.
