For Milton, all value and all good action depend on obedience to the will of God.
Milgram was interested in understanding what happens when obedience to authority overtakes personal conscience.
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He took up the law, which made all else possible, out of obedience to his father.
The clergy and lay people were chosen to represent his flock and pledge obedience to the pontiff.
As prime minister, Mr Fradkov, a former trade negotiator, was a study in obedience to Mr Putin.
Milton also manifestly does acknowledge that there are other sources of value than obedience to an all-knowing deity.
The other thing that protected Francis was his sincere obedience to the Church.
Federico Lombardi said he understands Benedict offered his pledge of obedience to the new pope, while Francis thanked Benedict for his ministry.
Slavic indifference and obedience to fate will probably trump even social media.
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Our religion is Islam, obedience to the one true god, Allah, and follow in the footsteps of the final prophet and messenger, Mohammed.
Also updated in Francis' installation as bishop were the words chosen to be recited by Cardinal Vallini when professing obedience to the pope's teaching and leadership.
Some of the conditions that turn people into killers are well known: extreme coercion, obedience to authority, dehumanisation of the enemy, social bonding, hatred, indoctrination, revenge, survival.
The conservative package of collectivism and conformity, by contrast, works in an unstable environment where joint action, and thus obedience to their group, are at a premium.
Because December 8th was the Catholic solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, classes were canceled and the forty-one seminarians and ten professors at Saint Beuno's School of Theology could while away the wide hours of morning and afternoon in holy obedience to hobbies and exercise in the glens and pastures of northern Wales.
The papacy ended on a very low key after Benedict promised during a final meeting with the cardinals - who will shortly elect his successor - to show "reverence and obedience" to the new head of the Church, from whichever continent or nation he may come.
He said later that the decision strained his vow of obedience almost to breaking point.
At a meeting in March with Pope Francis, he also repeated "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor.
During the meeting, Benedict pledged his "unconditional obedience" to the next pope.
However, Benedict made clear on his final day as pope that he was renouncing the job and pledged his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his then-unknown successor.
On his last day as pope, Benedict made a pledge of "unconditional obedience" and respect to whoever takes up the reins.
And so the American Revolutionaries fought against government, against its politicians, cronies, bureaucrats, and soldiers, against their power to compel obedience from everyone else.
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When offered the chance to get out, to choose our own communities, to choose our own friends, to relate to our families on our own terms, to get out from under inherited obligations of status and obedience, many of us choose to get out.
"Among you there is also the future pope to whom I promise my unconditional obedience and reverence, " the pontiff said.
There is an older book, 'Battling the Inner Dummy, ' that offers an interesting concept -- 'controlled trauma to induce transformation' and offers this illustration: 'Boot camp ... can be thought of as an example of controlled trauma that is designed to foster traits like loyalty and obedience.
The tabloids talk about our players as soldiers, so the values that are very highly praised in English football are bravery, passion, obedience, hard work and you don't tend to hear that much talk about creativity and inspiration, which are not soldierly virtues.
Cortani started training dogs more than 30 years ago while she was in the Army, and she translated that to civilian life, where she runs a canine obedience school.
Chinese parents who rock the Tiger Mother style still cling to the remnants of the Old World by expecting obedience above all else and stifling true creativity in favor of tried and true benchmarks of success: Perfect grades, best test scores, admission into top colleges.
Cardinals traditionally pay homage to the new pope in the Sistine Chapel by promising obedience and kissing his hand.
To some, merely the idea of abiding by the TSA's rules suggests sheepish compliance to an agency whose invasive practices call for reform, not obedience.
Some 700 years ago, the story goes, a sadistic bailiff called Gessler decided to teach the people living around the many arms of mountain-flanked Lake Lucerne a lesson in obedience.
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