Gentle Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws,…

— Levi Woodbury

“Obedience to a law which cannot be resisted is not the service of the heart—not the highest tribute to the Creator's glory. Far dearer…

— Margaret Gatty

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them…

— Edmund Spenser

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

— Theodore Roosevelt

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the…

— John Locke

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against…

— Kate Kelly

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

— John of the Cross

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant