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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Beauty, Truth

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Laws, Gentle, Seldom

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Wishes, Command

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

God, Spiritual, Nothing

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller

Command, Wisely, Cheerfully

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Commanded

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wisdom, Fool, Greatest

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan

Give, America, She

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Smedley Butler

Everyone, While, Military

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler

Crazy, Young, Moment

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood

Parents, Wish, Guilt

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
Janet Jackson

Parents, Why, Said

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Society, Hell, Commands

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
Matt Groening

Life, Real, Everything

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Primo Levi

Nature, Gossip, Anyone

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Ben Kingsley

Exists, Longing, Hunger

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
Martin Van Buren

Law, Public, Within

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin Cardozo

Risk, Duty, Defines

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue

Nature, Goes, Laws

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
Adolf Eichmann

God, War, Again

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