Citizens Quote by Will Durant

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

— H. L. Mencken

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may…

— John Ruskin

Obedience is the path to freedom.

— James E. Faust

Obedience is the road to freedom.

— C. S. Lewis

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

— Asma Jahangir

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

— Frances G. Wickes

“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators…

— Henry Fielding

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over…

— Vincent de Paul

“...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...”

— John Geddes

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled…

— Niccolo Machiavelli