Orders Quotes

443 quotes by 381 authors

It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State! — Adolf Hitler
The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven. — Rodrigue Tremblay
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. — Jean Cocteau
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same… — Denis Diderot
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand… — Robertson Davies
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will. — Seneca the Younger
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at… — Ludwig von Mises
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving… — Alphonsus Liguori
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should… — Mao Zedong
In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. — Erwin Rommel
In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the… — Yves Klein
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. — Ruth Hubbard
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. — Morey Amsterdam
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either… — Herbert York
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the… — John Joseph Griffin

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