“ 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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“ The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. ”
- Groucho Marx- 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
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“ Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget. ”
- Thomas Henry Huxley- 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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“ 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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“ It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. ”
- Mark Twain- 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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“ It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. ”
- Angelina Grimke- Copy
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“ The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness ; the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth — the power to love — although I have put it last, is the rarest. ”
- Margot Asquith- Copy
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“ All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former — of the corruption of the will. ”
- Alexander Herzen- 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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“ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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