Command Quotes

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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which… — Theodor Adorno
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens… — Sun Tzu
The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to… — William G. Bainbridge
The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have… — Julius W. Gates
I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good — Michael Mullen
To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify… — Giulio Douhet
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous… — Edmund Burke
The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes. — Charley Reese
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. — Mao Zedong
Every good servant does not all commands. — William Shakespeare
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… — Aldous Huxley
Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature… — Albert Schweitzer
Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands. — Leonidas I
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you… — George S. Patton
The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the… — Robert Hunter
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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