“ A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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“ Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul — and that's resignation. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience. ”
- Herschel Hobbs- Copy
- 435
“ Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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“ Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ”
- Carrie Snow- Copy
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“ The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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“ The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Accountability is essential. So the question for me is, what did Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Pentagon know, when did they know it and what did they do about it?... If the answers are unsatisfactory, resignations should be sought. ”
- Joe Biden- Copy
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“ Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes. ”
- Denis de Rougemont- Copy
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“ He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ”
- Fernanda Bartolme- Copy
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“ Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce our brand image. ”
- Tom Warga- Copy
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“ The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ”
- Stanley Milgram- Copy
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“ Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
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“ There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. ”
- William Edward Forster- Copy
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