Command Quotes

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A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. — Edwin Louis Cole
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,… — Alan Dershowitz
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because… — Alan Dershowitz
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,'… — Joe DiMaggio
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. — Denis Diderot
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those… — Denis Diderot
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. — Denis Diderot
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion… — Benjamin Disraeli
We can't command our love, but we can our actions. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! — Albert Einstein
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. — Havelock Ellis
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his… — Arthur Erickson
Who has not served cannot command. — John Florio
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is… — Chris Hadfield
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human… — Gary Hamel
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive… — Dag Hammarskjold
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace… — Oscar Hammerstein II
Those who can command themselves command others. — William Hazlitt
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. — Seamus Heaney
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command,… — George Herbert

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