Sophocles Quotes

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I think we really need a government that tells us what to do.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

Trust your leaders and you will enjoy the fruits of your obedience.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. But there are different degrees of obedience, and it is not every degree that is commendable. Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.

Governmental power is the faculty to beat into submission all those who would dare to disobey the orders issued by the authorities. … Every governmental action is backed by constables, prison guards, and executioners. However beneficial a governmental action may appear, it is ultimately made possible only by the government's power to compel its subjects to do what many of them would not do if they were not threatened by the police and the penal courts.