It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. — Karl Brandt Copy Share Image
... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive. — John Leo Copy Share Image
No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
