Obeyed Quotes
119 quotes by 102 authors
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
— Francis Bacon
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
— Smedley Butler
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
— Primo Levi
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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
— Blaise Pascal
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must…
— Francis Bacon
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,…
— Frederick Soddy
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be…
— Sun Tzu
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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the…
— Jacques Maritain
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of…
— Oscar Romero
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War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all…
— Smedley Butler
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
— Edward Gibbon
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If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and…
— George Santayana
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It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;…
— Pope Adrian IV
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