Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The existence of laws, regulations, and procedures has never been sufficient to compel men to obedience. Productive obedience comes through the exercise of free…

— Dean L. Larsen

“When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes a quest, in that movement God endows us with power.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

— Dorothy Day

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

“Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.”

— George Hammond

“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to…

— Thomas Carlyle

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is not, 'What…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes…

— Stanley Milgram

“Partial obedience is complete diobedience to God.”

— Kyle Pals