Lemuel K. Washburn Quotes

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

I don't curtsy to Frank Sinatra and I'm not going to curtsy to a fucking king.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

All power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner …. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

No act which is directed against the Inquisition can deserve the name of a rebellion.

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

The priest accustoms the child to the idea of law, to make it obey better what he calls the "divine law," and the lawyer prates of divine law, that the civil law may be the better obeyed.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, And keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

Those who can, must obey.

I hold it blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.