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title: "4 Authority Obedience Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“Disobedience is as much a proof of authority as obedience. You cannot rebel without acknowledging a government. You cannot be a heretic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tiffany-reisz/disobedience-is-as-much-a-proof-of-authority-as-obedience-you-cannot/)

[Tiffany Reisz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tiffany-reisz/)

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> [The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-edward/the-modern-susceptibility-to-conformity-and-obedience-to-authority/)

[David Edward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-edward/)

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> [Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/submission-is-not-about-authority-and-it-is-not-obedience-it-is-all/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/to-maintain-the-harmony-of-authority-and-obedience-to-chastise-the/)

[Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/)

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