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Obedience decks the Christian most. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend. (Quote by - Saadi)

As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows; Useless each without the other. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)

Those who know the least obey the best. (Quote by - Farquhar, George)

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. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience. (Quote by - Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me." (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet. (Quote by - George Farquhar)

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. (Quote by - Saadi)

In this country my Lords,..the individual subject... 'has nothing fo do with the laws but to obey them' (Quote by - Bishop Samuel Horsley)

The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. (Quote by - English Proverb)

Tis the same, with common natures, Use 'em kindly, they rebel, But, be rough as nutmeg graters, And the rogues obey you well. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)

The first great law is to obey. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience. (Quote by - Saadi)

Light is a special help to obedience, and obedience is a singular help to increase light. (Quote by - Rev. John Flavel (2))

Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the whole. (Quote by - Dr. George Sewell)

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Why does the dead ball moon shining with stolen light have more power on earth than the vastly larger self luminescent stars? (Quote by - Sai Baba)

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