Obedience Quotes

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Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. - Harold Nicolson quote.
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

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The most common adjustment of thought in the obedient subject is for him to see himself as not responsible for his own actions.  He divests himself of responsibility . . . He sees himself not as a person acting in a morally accountable way but as the agent of external authority.
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. - C. P. Snow quote.
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.