Obedient Quotes - Page 10

• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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• Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

  Clarence Darrow

  Tyrants, Subjects

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• A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Wicked, Desire

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Doubt, Age

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.102, CUP Archive

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

  Libba Bray

  Scared, Stranger, I Can

  Libba Bray (2009). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

  Tom Perrotta

  Children, People, Choices

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Thinking, Views

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

  Howard Zinn

  Teacher, Successful, Media

  "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

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• The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, House, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Community

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• No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Christ

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• A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

  Robertson Davies

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Citizens, Tests, Treats

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• He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.

  Chanakya

  Son, Wife, Heaven

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in keeping His commandments. He was baptized to show us that we should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  Robert D. Hales

  Father, Water, Baptism

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• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Safe, Polite

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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• It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind, Command, Countenance

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sea, Victory, Ears

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310

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• I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Discipline, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Husband, Lying, Giving

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• I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better.

  Joel Osteen

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fighting, Thinking, Decision

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• Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.

  David Wilkerson

  Heaven, Atmosphere, Doe

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