Obey

Famous quotes containing the word obey:

“To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)