Philip van Marnix Quotes

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

One authority, one gun…

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

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

I. George Washington, President of the United States, do hereby command all persons, being insurgents, as aforesaid, and all others whom it may concern, on or before the 1st day of September next to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes. And I do moreover warn all persons whomsoever against aiding, abetting, or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acts; and do require all officers and other citizens, according to their respective duties and the laws of the land, to exert their utmost endeavors to prevent and suppress such dangerous proceedings

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

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.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I cannot stand authority.

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.