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...farm for 25 years went to his bwana. 'I'm leaving,' he said. 'They made me take the Mau Mau oath. This means they may ask me to kill you and I won't want to be in a position where I could obey. So it's better I get off the farm.' The 'loyalest' Kikuyu can't be trusted if he has taken the oath, even if he was forced to take...
...century; but he faced a nobility and a clergy that had never really submitted to the Czars. Malenkov has some assets in his inheritance which no other dictator had: ¶A generation which never knew anything but Communist rule, and has been trained not to think but to obey...
...perfect escape was over. Next day she was back in Bremen, where police took the precaution of disabling her engines. Then they threw at Owner Mardin just about every charge in the maritime code book: speeding, dangerous passing, scraping a dock, steaming without lights, failing to give signals or obey traffic regulations, cutting a tug adrift and violating Germany's customs, passport, currency and ship clearance regulations. For all that, the police inspector could not down his admiration. "I must offer my highest praise for your brilliant navigational maneuvers," said he handsomely. Replied Hasim Mardin, with...
...announced to his father, "I was made not to obey, but to command...
...American people have affirmed their faith in the fundamental decency of their governmental system is abundantly evidenced in the vast numbers who participated in the national election of the other day. If, then, Mr. Kohr dissents from their judgment, concludes that he is governed tyrannically, and decides to obey only those laws which he finds agreeable, what can one say to him but that he proceeds at his peril...