Obediance Quotes

“Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting." by Primo Levi in Drowned”
― Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved

“Lord I am willing to walk with you, take my hand.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“such as men can only achieve by long years of practice in old-fashioned and decaying administrations in which discretion has long degenerated into insensibility and obedience into cowardice.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina