Zitat des Tages über Gehorcht / Obeyed:
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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.
If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
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.
The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
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.
I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.