Command Quotes

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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is… — Hunter S. Thompson
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be… — Sun Tzu
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. — Ferdinand Foch
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be… — Mao Zedong
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what… — Aristotle
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the… — Pope Benedict XVI
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand… — Philip Yancey
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and… — John of Damascus
It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested… — Paula Coughlin
He who commands the sea has command of everything. — Themistocles
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man… — Bronislaw Malinowski
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the… — Justus von Liebig
[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto… — Robbie Savage
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command — Ambrose Bierce
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan

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