The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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