Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

Those who can, must obey.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I follow the roles.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Who has not served cannot command.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

I did what I was supposed to do.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

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

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

Everybody knows if you have the rules, you need to follow the rules and do exactly what you need to do.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

My duty is to obey orders.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.