Obligation to Obey Quotes

There never was a government without force.... A governement leaving it to a man to do his duty, or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all.

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.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

In this country, my Lords, ... the individual subject ... has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.