Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 102 Obedience quotesObedience QuotesObedience Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens: Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions, or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?~ Cat Farmer Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.~ Erich Fromm The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.~ John Taylor Gatto If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.~ Samuel P. Ginder There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.~ William Glasser You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.~ Rosalie M. Gordon For the average American family, filling out a tax form has become like attacking a puzzle to which, often enough, there is no right answer. But we're all supposed to swear, on penalty of perjury, that we've done our best to find it.~ Paul Greenberg Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.~ William T. Harris The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.~ Friedrich August von Hayek It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.~ Adolf Hitler Society's needs come before the individual's needs.~ Adolf Hitler No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.~ John Holt To silence criticism is to silence freedom.~ Sidney Hook How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.~ Suzanna Gratia Hupp Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.~ Ivan Illich Throughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom…has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues.~ Paul Bede Johnson A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.~ Carl Gustav Jung Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print