OBEDIENCE

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

1. The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy

2. My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.—HAMILCAR

3. Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they;
   But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!—KIPLING, The Law of the Jungle

4. We must do the thing we must
   Before the thing we may;
   We are unfit for any trust
   Till we can and do obey.—GEORGE MACDONALD, Willie's Question
   

5. They that are bound must obey.—Proverb
   

6. Obedience,
   Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
   Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
   A mechanized automaton.—SHELLEY, Queen Mab
   

7. Theirs not to make reply,
   Theirs not to reason why,
   Theirs but to do and die.—TENNYSON, The Charge of the Light Brigade