Prove Quote by Sun Tzu

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

— Albert Kesselring

...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments;…

— Marquis de Sade

The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit…

— Sam Houston

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting…

— John Keegan

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

— Gregory David Roberts

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy…

— Ulysses S. Grant

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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…

— Sun Tzu

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control…

— Bruno Bettelheim

If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

— Naftali Bennett

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are…

— Anton Chekhov