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Obedience Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
- Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the…
- Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
More Obedience Quotes
- I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
- Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
- It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only… — Albert Barnes
- A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. — Robert Benchley
- Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim
- Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. — Aeschylus
- One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. — Nadia Boulanger
- You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. — Richard Branson
- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything… — Anatole Broyard
- Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. — Thomas Carlyle
- Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. — Noam Chomsky