Top Obedience Quotes
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
Mary Richards
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
Adam Clarke
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary Wollstonecraft
All Obedience Quotes
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean Jacques Rousseau 
68% of people like this quote
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
Mary Richards 
62% of people like this quote
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony 
61% of people like this quote
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
Adam Clarke 
60% of people like this quote
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary Wollstonecraft 
58% of people like this quote
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
John Nelson Darby 
58% of people like this quote
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim 
58% of people like this quote
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
John Strachan 
56% of people like this quote
Popular Obedience Authors
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Mary WollstonecraftNoam ChomskyAdam ClarkeJohn Nelson DarbyCharles HodgeWilliam AmesRobert E. LeeSusan B. AnthonyAugustus HareAnnie DillardJohn StrachanJoseph LancasterUlysses S. GrantKamisese MaraJonathan Mayhew
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