#obey

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #instinct #law #nature #obey

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#laws #obey #thermodynamics

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#country #die #doing #go #know

I would not like a king who could obey. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#i #king #like #obey #who

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#am #assigns #certain #doors #gentleman

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #bent #emperors #follow #kings

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#complaints #first #justice #obey #stops

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#chieftain #command #fashion #find #give

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ↗

— John Dryden

#decay #fate #monarchs #must #obey

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#american citizens #anywhere #citizens #constituted #courts