DISOBEDIENCE

Related Subjects: Authority, Defiance, Discipline, Submission, Treason

1. Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity. One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.—THOMAS FULLER
   

2. Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.—T. C. HALIBURTON
   

3. That men so universally disobey God bespeaks alienation and enmity of mind, for as obedience proceeds from love so disobedience proceeds from enmity.—JOHN HOWE
   

4. Let it profit thee to have heard,
   By terrible example, the reward
   Of disobedience.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

5. Rogues differ little. Each begun first as a disobedient son.—Proverb