Definition of Obedient

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Definition of Obedient
	Obedient Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command. Related Definitions: Act, Authority, Command, Control, In, Obey, Or, Restraint, Subject, Submissive, To, Will, Willing

Obedient Quotations

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.
Willie Aames

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.
Adolf Eichmann

Obedient Translations

obedient in Danish is lydig
obedient in Dutch is willig, gehoorzaam
obedient in French is docile
obedient in German is folgsam, gehorsam, folgsamen
obedient in Italian is obbediente, obbediente
obedient in Spanish is obediente, docil, bienmandado
obedient in Swedish is lydig

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