Quotes on Command

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.