Benign Quote by Theodore Dalrymple Download Open image “Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.” — Theodore Dalrymple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benign Habit Habits Obeying Order
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught. — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“People with no experience of life except under communist regimes would tell me that they knew—though they were unsure how—that their life was not… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep… — Moby Copy Share Image
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware… — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is… — Ted Bell Copy Share Image
Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
