Top Obedient Quotes
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.
Willie Aames
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Ivan Turgenev
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau 
79% of people like this quote
This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.
Willie Aames
61% of people like this quote
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
57% of people like this quote
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Ivan Turgenev
56% of people like this quote
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
55% of people like this quote
You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
Brit Hume
53% of people like this quote
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis
52% of people like this quote
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
52% of people like this quote
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich
52% of people like this quote