Command Quotes - Page 36

• Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Virtue, Beggar

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Love and Intrigue: Top Classic of German”, p.38, 谷月社

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• When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Honor, Enemy

  Foreword to Theodore Roscoe "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" (p. 5), June 1, 1949.

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• Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

  Camille Paglia

  Emotional, Age, Midlife

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.46, Vintage

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• Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Egypt, America, Challenges

  "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.

  Johann Most

  Mean, Men, Past

  Johann Joseph Most (1890). “The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism”

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• Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Dwelling, Isolation

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.1, HarperCollins

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• When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

  Rose Kennedy

  Past, Thinking, Trying

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.51, Routledge

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• The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Heart

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.725, Library of America

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Greatness, Land

  Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.274, University of Hawaii Press

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• I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

  Robert Greene

  Knows

  Robert Greene (1831). “The dramatic works of Robert Greene: to which are added his poems. With some account of the author, and notes”, p.110

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• Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, "What happened?" but rather, "How then shall I live?" And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Book, Answers, Moses

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

  Dwight Gooden

  Hands, Balls, Want

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• There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

  Charles Buck

  Law, Perfection, Degrees

  Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

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• If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

  Angelina Grimke

  Law, Suffering, Sin

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin

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• Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.

  John S. Hall

  Sex, Real, Laughing

  "Song: 'Leather Clown' ('They')". 1988.

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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Pride, Self, Decision

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• I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

  Len Goodman

  School, Men, Boss

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• In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

  Jeff Greenfield

  Narrative, Way, Rooms

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• The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Struggle, Iran, Democracy

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• The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.

  Merle Haggard

  Alcohol, Drug, Bottles

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• Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Inspirational, Demand

  Song: Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

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• Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

  John William Strutt

  Science, Desire, Delight

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• The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. They command. We can obey or rebel. That is why Jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.

  Joseph Sobran

  Jesus, Hate, Heart

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