obedience quotes

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

-Aeschylus
Septem contra Thebas, l.224^5 (translated by C M Dawson).

I see there's truth in no man, nor obedience But for his own ends.

- Francis and Fletcher,John Beaumont
A King and No King, act 4, sc.2.

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

- Edmund Burke
  On Conciliation with  America.

As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

- Emily Wilding Davison
  Comment on uncompleted Census paper, quoted in Gertrude Colmore The Life of Emily  Wilding Davison (1913).

   All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because†theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

- Richard Hooker
  Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

Keep ye the lawbe swift in all obedience Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By thepeaceamongourpeopleslet men know weserve the Lord!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'A Song of the English'.

There have been many crimes committed in the name of duty and obediencemany more than in the name of dissent.

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
  'Testimony of Four Peers', in Esquire, Dec.

Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

- Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
  The Heart of the Country,'LoveYour Enemy'.

   Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

- Mary also known as Mrs Godwin Wollstonecraft
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.2.