“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.” WorldLittlesWarCountryFactsWould BeSchoolOrderFightingLeaderBoysHonorHighestEmpathyStrangerObedienceSomedayLittle BoysFacilitate Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that.” ThinkingHeartDreamPlansHonorObedience Author:Joel Osteen
“What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.” HumansLittlesIdeasChristianReligiousAtheismModernSourceHonorMoralityStandardsEthicsDignityPositive AtheismObligationRecognitionObedienceGreekPrivate LifeMagnanimityPersonal Dignity Author:John Stuart Mill
“Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.” MenMayMeanRealCountryIndividualBornHonorFellowsInstitutionsCommandObedienceServingSovereigntyFellow ManLivelihood Author:Calvin Coolidge
“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.” MenWayMeanTwoRealWholeHelpingUseWould BeOrderPartyInformationHonorHolyTraditionSilentWork OutActiveChainsOne WayObedienceJust OneAweReverenceDictatorNew WaysNew InformationReal Relationship Author:A. J. Jacobs
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.” WayShouldLooksLongEnoughAgeLife IsTimeFallHonorAgingOld AgeMy WayObedienceYellowTroopsLeafsAccompanyMacbeth ThemeYellow Leaves Book:Macbeth Source: Macbeth
“How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?” WorldDreamSeemsVirtueObjectsThis WorldHumilityHonorDrinkMercyDressesRichesObedienceAttractivePurityDwellingAbstinenceMeeknessFood And DrinkFuture Life Author:John of Kronstadt