Military discipline Quote by John Ripin Miller

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

— Shashi Tharoor

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the…

— Zhang Xin

“But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the practice of…

— Slavoj Žižek

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave…

— Orlando Figes

“What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a landscape, lived…

— Susan Griffin

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em…

— Bernard de Mandeville

We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals…

— Filipp Golikov

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out…

— Francois Rabelais

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The General Order is always: …To manoeuver in a body and on the attack. …To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline. …To keep the…

— Lazare Carnot