Command Not Quotes

• The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Soul, Balance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Order, Class

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• Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love Is, Feelings, World

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Feb 14, 2017

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• Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowing, Faith In God, Divine

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.238, 1895.

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• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Evil, Giving

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• Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

  Aristotle

  Art, Sacrifice, Men

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• It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers
  never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given
  commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

  Brad Templeton

  Law, People, Important

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• Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Soul, Citizens

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.386, JHU Press

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• Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

  Paul Tillich

  Justice, Principles, Negative

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