H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956), p. 217-218
“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”
I. 218 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Meditations on the Cross (1996), Back to the Cross, p. 3
Context: We want Jesus as the visibly resurrected one, as the splendid, transfigured Jesus. We want his visible power and glory, and we no longer want to return to the cross, to believing against all appearances, to suffering in faith … it is good here... let us make dwellings. …
The disciples are not allowed to do this. God's glory comes quite near in the radiant cloud of God's presence, and the Father's voice says: "This is my beloved son; listen to him!" … There is no abiding in and enjoying his visible glory here. Whoever recognizes the transfigured Jesus, whoever recognizes Jesus as God, must also immediately recognize Him as the crucified human being, and should hear him, obey him. Luther's vision of Christ: "the crucified Lord!" … Now the disciples are overcome by fear. Now they comprehend what is going on. They were, after all, still in the world, unable to bear such glory. They sinned against God's glory.
“The God of the sages does not merely ordain; God also listens.”
Harold M. Schulweis (1925–2014) American rabbi and theologian
Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey (2008)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s
“He is the only man…who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) German Army officer and later Nazi leader in Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
About Hitler. Quoted in "Will Germany Crack?: A Factual Report on Germany from Within" - Page 134 - by Karl Boromäus Frank, Anna Caples - 1942
Aristotle book Metaphysics
982a.15, W. Ross, trans., The Basic Works of Aristotle (2001), p. 691.
Metaphysics
“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: The Present Age
“We can have no deep, ongoing fellowship with God unless we obey him - totally.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
Xenophon book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 29.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
Context: That... is the road to the obedience of compulsion. But there is a shorter way to a nobler goal, the obedience of the will. When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves. You may prove this on all sides: you may see how the sick man will beg the doctor to tell him what he ought to do, how a whole ship’s company will listen to the pilot.