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  • You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. -- Vladimir Putin
  • The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. -- Albert Einstein
  • Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel. -- Peter Singer
  • In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! -- Dan Castellaneta
  • The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. -- Earl Warren
  • I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law -- John Pinette
  • Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. -- Jean Anouilh
  • Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified. -- David L. Bazelon
  • There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone. -- Bob Dylan
  • The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. -- Rand Paul
  • Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. -- Saint Augustine
  • Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. -- Malcolm X
  • Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it. -- Barton Gellman
  • For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. -- Barbara Jordan
  • I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws. -- Viktor Yushchenko
  • I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems. -- Deshaun Watson
  • One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law. -- Vladimir Putin
  • For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. -- David Cameron
  • The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?" -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed. -- Laozi
  • Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God. -- Bayard Rustin
  • There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way. -- Henry Rollins
  • As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law. -- Gary Bauer
  • What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws. -- Dallas Willard
  • There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Good men must not obey the laws too well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. -- Chief Joseph
  • God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. -- Manny Pacquiao
  • Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. -- Solon
  • Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. -- Warren De la Rue
  • It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate. -- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  • In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. -- Edmund Burke
  • Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. -- Albert Camus
  • The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. -- Paul Ricoeur
  • The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. -- Bertolt Brecht
  • In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself. -- Charles Grandison Finney
  • There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. -- Tom Shadyac
  • While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. -- John Yoo
  • The first great law is to obey. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. -- Manny Pacquiao
  • There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it. -- Kathy Acker
  • The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey. -- Randall Terry
  • Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart. -- J. I. Packer
  • White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. -- Jack London
  • We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ. -- Jerry Bridges
  • There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives. -- Spencer W. Kimball
  • The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. -- Learned Hand
  • There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. -- Chaim Weizmann
  • No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics] -- Isaac Asimov
  • One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen. -- John Taylor
  • It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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