Commanded Quotes

185 quotes by 149 authors

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Disrespect cannot be commanded, it must be earned. — Matthew Taberner
Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe operation in Gaza… — Jonathan Chait
I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense… — John F. Kerry
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see… — Ovid
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to… — Woodrow Wilson
[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is… — John Ashcroft
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly. — Matthew of Edessa
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God? — Plato
I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my… — Hatshepsut
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they… — Benjamin Franklin
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the… — Martin Luther
Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two… — Richard G. Scott
But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the… — Eusebius
I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even… — James Longstreet
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The… — Federico Fellini
I am commanded therefore I am. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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