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Quotes About Orders

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
~ Sonia Johnson
There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.
~ Jeffrey Ashby
The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.
~ George Weigel
to study a situation, evaluate its facts, decide which ones were meaningful, develop a course of action in response to work toward a desired outcome, and verbalize the orders that needed to be issued. Those are the basic steps in critical thinking
~ Thomas E. Ricks
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.
~ o.henry
This polarization has an unmistakably global dimension to it. Even in the small towns where folks bicker with one another about how to run the schools, the local issues and rivalries are overshadowed by a general feeling that all social orders—definitely including small-town America—are being drawn into something much larger.
~ Walter Truet Anderson
canon gives orders that no more prayers are to be offered up for the British government.
~ Charles Kaiser
I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.
~ Charles W. Colson
The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?
~ Charlotte Mason
By December Edison was making public demonstrations and taking his first commercial orders. "We will make electricity so cheap," he said, "that only the rich will burn candles.
~ Hampton Sides
them, "fall in behind the armored personnel carriers, at once." The Germans' boots pounded on the macadam
~ Harry Turtledove
Some things unfortunately yielded to no man's orders. Maybe that was why foolish people imagined gods into being: to have someone whose orders were sure to be obeyed.
~ Harry Turtledove
Todas las acciones están sujetas a órdenes», «Nunca hay que robar al pueblo», «Jamás seas egoísta o injusto»;
~ Lawrence Freedman
BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. A Vietnam War–era phrase that has lasted for decades, meaning those folks in the field—military or intelligence—are going to be the sacrificial lambs once again to protect the ones issuing orders.
~ James Patterson
Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?
~ Jane Austen
Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. "You can read, right?" "Yep." "I always gotta ask these days.
~ Janet Evanovich
India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
~ Hillary Clinton
To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects."40 Changes
~ Timothy Sandefur
Professional ethics must guide us precisely when we are told that the situation is exceptional. Then there is no such thing as "just following orders." If members of the professions confuse their specific ethics with the emotions of the moment, however, they can find themselves saying and doing things that they might previously have thought unimaginable.
~ Timothy Snyder
Professions can create forms of ethical conversation that are impossible between a lonely individual and a distant government. If members of professions think of themselves as groups with common interests, with norms and rules that oblige them at all times, then they can gain confidence and indeed a certain kind of power. Professional ethics must guide us precisely when we are told that the situation is exceptional. Then there is no such thing as "just following orders.
~ Timothy Snyder
All in all, regular policemen murdered more Jews than the Einsatzgruppen. Many of them had no special preparation for this task. They found themselves in an unknown land, they had their orders, and they did not want to look weak. In the rare cases when they refused these orders to murder Jews, policemen were not punished.
~ Timothy Snyder
Professional ethics must guide us precisely when we are told that the situation is exceptional. Then there is no such thing as "just following orders".
~ Timothy Snyder
If the politics of inevitability is like a coma, the politics of eternity is like hypnosis: We stare at the spinning vortex of cyclical myth until we fall into a trance—and then we do something shocking at someone else's orders. The
~ Timothy Snyder