“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but it does not convince us that they are right.”— Bruno Bettelheim
“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”— Adolf Eichmann
“When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.”— Ezra Taft Benson
“There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.”— William Kingdon Clifford
“Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.”— Jim Elliot
“If being a good priest means being obedient to a corrupt system, then I choose not to be a 'good priest' in their eyes.”— Pat Buckley
“The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced in His will in all things.”— Richard Cecil