If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can contribute to each individual candidate. I obey the law in that regard, and I feel like I'm doing it properly.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Learn to obey before you command.
With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Photographs speak to me, and I obey.
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences.
I would not like a king who could obey.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey, and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change.
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
