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There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.

William Edward Forster Topic: Obedience

It is much safer to obey, than to govern.

Thomas à Kempis Topic: Obedience

Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

Anonymous Topic: Obedience

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt Topic: Obedience

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot Topic: Obedience

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Topic: Obedience

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Nadia Boulanger Topic: Obedience

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming Topic: Obedience

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 Topic: Obedience

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Jean Jacques Rousseau Topic: Obedience

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson Topic: Obedience

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

Thomas à Kempis Topic: Obedience

Why does the dead ball moon shining with stolen light have more power on earth than the vastly larger self luminescent stars? Proximity Sai Baba http://www.vahini.org/downloads.

Sai Baba Topic: Obedience

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H Curtis Topic: Obedience

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic: Obedience

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle Topic: Obedience

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