Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of mater, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed".
According to Lyons, there can be no moral presumption in favour of obedience to the law in such regimes, and therefore no moral justification is required for civil disobedience.
Arguably, Glaucon in Plato's Republic (bk. 2, 360b c) sees the logic in his argument against obedience to the law if only one can escape sanction for violations.
The soldiers' musical and physical training is strictly regimented; they must take satisfaction in the obedience to the laws in the preservation of the city's inner and outer peace and in deeds of valor in war.
Ancient Jews were willing to lay down their lives out of obedience to the law but also in the knowledge that God would reward them in the afterlife.
They could be beaten by enlightened voters, in due obedience to the laws.
One day it's one side of the street, another day it's the other side, back and forth, back and forth in dutiful obedience to the laws and timeless rhythms governing alternate street parking.
His work, including a chain-link-fence cage with a sign, "Obedience to the Law Is Freedom," is in the inaugural exhibition of the New Museum of Contemporary Art's new building on the Bowery.
Arrest, placing of a person in custody or under restraint, usually for the purpose of compelling obedience to the law.
