International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.Noam Chomsky
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.Marcel Proust
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.Saint Ignatius
The body should be treated more rigorously, so that it may not be disobedient to the mind.Michel de Montaigne
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.Friedrich Nietzsche