Obeying Quotes

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Cannot, Her

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht

Alone, Law, Made

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Rosa Parks

Tired, Made, After

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
Al Green

Fairness, Rules

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Paul Ricoeur

Law, Between, Relation

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
Iggy Pop

Mom, Dad, School

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
J. D. Hayworth

Fashion, Makes, Question

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo

War, Legal, Lost

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing

Mind, Play, Said

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
David Deutsch

Brain, Why, Wrong

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.
Roscoe Conkling

Win, Country, State

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