Meaning of obedient in English

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« Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. »
Orson Pratt
« A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. »
Aldous Huxley
« I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. »
Newt Gingrich
« Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. »
Geoffrey Chaucer
« In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. »
Ivan Turgenev