Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience. — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better,… — James Brady Copy Share Image
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
“The best way to positive change is reading the Bible, there is no other way to eternal bliss than concrete obedience to… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“{ The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll 's funeral, quoted here } Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world… — Robert Speer Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
