Command Quote by Sophocles

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

— Phillips Brooks

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

— H. L. Mencken

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws…

— Sophocles

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state.…

— Lord Acton

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but…

— George Washington

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press…

— Charles Eliot Norton

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by…

— George Sutherland

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such…

— Mahatma Gandhi

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau