John Ruskin Quotes

Obedience is the key to every door.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

The way of obedience is the way of blessing.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

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

Obedience to authority saves many skins

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

My duty is to obey orders.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

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

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.