Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Woe, Obedience, Claims

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Zero, Destiny, World

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

• They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Buddhism, Men, Errors

  "The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". "On Heroes" by Thomas Carlyle, Chapter 1, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. 1840.

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