Command Quotes

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Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton
Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. — Carmen Ortiz
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took… — Rocco Galati
Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting… — H. L. Mencken
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its… — Mikhail Bakunin
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. — Warren E. Burger
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Joseph Prestwich
The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its… — William Thomas Walsh
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs… — Sun Tzu
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
This is a real presence which includes every dimension of who Jesus is: body and blood, human soul and divine person. The consecrated Eucharistic species… — Francis George
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that… — John A. Lejeune
He that cannot obey, cannot command. — Benjamin Franklin
...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. — Bob Dylan
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once… — Henry David Thoreau
When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment. — Woodrow M. Kroll
The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more… — George Washington Carver
Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also. — Rajneesh
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has… — Noam Chomsky

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