Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

Those who know the least obey the best.

The mass of the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

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

Those who fear men like laws.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.

When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.