Command Quotes
1127 quotes by 865 authors
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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
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Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.
— Carmen Ortiz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
— Benjamin Franklin
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...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
— Bob Dylan
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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
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When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.
— Woodrow M. Kroll
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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
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Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.
— Rajneesh
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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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