Obey

Extra points to those who get the reference…..

“A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.”
— Lao Tzu

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions” — Niccolo Machiavelli

“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law” — Sophocles

“The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.” — Mark Twain

“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country” — Margaret Mead

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” — Aristotle

“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.”
— Havelock Ellis

“When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek”
— Jim Fiebig

“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person’s duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it” — Ernest Hemingway

“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” — Benjamin Franklin

“He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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