Commands Quotes

302 quotes by 260 authors

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to… — Honore de Balzac
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and… — Jack Black
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. — Martin Buber
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. — Edmund Burke
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. — Eldridge Cleaver
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple. — Tim Ferriss
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man… — John Bertram Phillips
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise,… — John Quincy Adams
If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder:… — Sun Tzu
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which… — Theodor Adorno
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. — Mao Zedong
Every good servant does not all commands. — William Shakespeare
Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands. — Leonidas I
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to… — Charles Evans Hughes

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