Command Quotes - Page 36

• He who commands the sea has command of everything.

  Themistocles

  Military, Sea

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• Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.

  Justus von Liebig

  Eye, Science, Men

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• [Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Son, Judging

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• The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Health, Mean

  "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words".

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• Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Within You

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• O Allah,
  You know that the only thing I want in this life
  Is to be obedient to Your command.
  Even the living sight of my eyes
  Is service at your court

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Eye

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• Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

  Hasan of Basra

  Islamic, Obedience, Firm

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• Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perseverance, Thee, Endure

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• Soul winning is not a method; it is a command. We are supposed to go soul winning and do soul winning if our churches grow or if our churches decrease in attendance.

  Jack Hyles

  Inspiration, Winning, Soul

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• An obedient wife commands her husband.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Husband, Wife, Obedient

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

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• The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Men, History

  "Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior". Book by Alberto Rivas, p. 162, 2007.

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• The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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• You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.428

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• Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Tired, Thinking

  Ulysses S. Grant (1969). “Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman”

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• The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Army, Fighting

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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Writing, Genius

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Responsibility, Quality

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• Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

  Jacques Maritain

  Mean, Power, Government

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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• Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Men, Steps

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy Life, Emotional

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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• Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Law, Opposites

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1970). “Cicero”

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