A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
Matt Groening
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan
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
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Ben Kingsley
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
Martin Van Buren
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin Cardozo
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
Adolf Eichmann
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
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