Unquestioned Obedience Quotes

Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch; he is absolute, and recognizes nobody above him. His judgments, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid unless he has himself authorized it. On the other hand, those of vulgar minds, who are swayed by all kinds of current opinions, authorities, and prejudices, are like the people which in silence obey the law and commands.

The human race is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands of others the submissiveness of sheep.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Those who would be thought the rulers of the church arrogate to themselves a license to speak whatsoever they please, and to insist that as soon as they have spoken they shall be implicitly obeyed.

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who do fear him.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

A king's word must stand.

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

There's definitely something to the 'Daddy's girl' thing - my daughter can have her way with me pretty easily.

One of the dark truths about dictators - and it applies to Gaddafi - is that on some level, they love their people. But it is a strange love. It says, 'I love you for me; I don't love you for you.' That rhymes with a certain kind of Libyan father who was always certain about what was good for those around him. Those fathers lose in the end.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

With God on their side, Christians have no need for majoritarian politics, or for compromise and accomodation to reach their goal.

When we are reproached for exercising the dictatorship of party, we say, yes ... We stand by it and cannot do without it.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

The laws of an absolute monarchy are not its legislative acts; they are the will and pleasure of the monarch.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

I’m the commander, see, I don’t need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

The right of initiative...belongs exclusively to ME, and is indissolubly bound to the autocratic power entrusted to ME by GOD....No one is called to take upon himself before ME petitions about the general welfare and needs of the state. Such departures from the order established by existing legislation can only hinder me in the execution of MY aims