Chain of command Quote by Robert Jackson Bennett

“It is not as easy as you think,” she replied. “In the first place, my orders would not be carried out unless they were…

— Robert K. Massie

“But I’ve always found that the quickest way to make someone relent in his foolish edicts is to take every command literally and to…

— Courtney Milan

“When you suddenly command some unusual, unexpected course of action, then even if it is something you have hitherto forbidden, even if for the…

— Augustine of Hippo

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

— Lawana Blackwell

“Bethink yourselves whether it is righteous to obey man more than God,”

— Leo Tolstoy

“If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me.…

— Frank Herbert

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.”

— Richard Rohr

“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for…

— Ernst Jünger

“men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.”

— Tocqueville de

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

— Victor Hugo

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

— Robert E. Lee