“ Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. ”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Copy
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“ I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. ”
- Emily Watson- Copy
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“ Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love. ”
- D. D. Field- Copy
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“ Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. ”
- Margaret Halsey- Copy
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“ Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ”
- Jimmy Buffett- Copy
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“ Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. ”
- Adolf Eichmann- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. ”
- William Bainbridge- Copy
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“ The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. ”
- Michelangelo- Copy
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“ Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
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“ Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie. ”
- Simonides- Copy
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“ I've had a great time. I've had a great career and I've obviously had a very radical conversion in my life. It's very tangible. It's very real. It allowed me and enabled me to become the person that I couldn't on my own. Which is the most powerful part of this whole equation for me… ”
- Stephen Baldwin- Copy
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“ Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. ”
- Adolf Eichmann- Copy
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“ The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. ”
- Quran- Copy
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