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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.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more

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.

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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.

by Rabindranath Tagore Found in: Obedience Quotes,
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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than read more

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, read more

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.

by Walter Bagehot Found in: Obedience Quotes,
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Obedience alone gives the right to command

Obedience alone gives the right to command

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Obedience Quotes,
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When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the read more

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Obedience Quotes,
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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and read more

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.

by Cyrus H. Curtis Found in: Obedience Quotes,
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