Quotes About Command

What this also meant was that honor and credit became, effectively, the same thing: at least for a poor man, one's creditworthiness was precisely one's command over one's household, and (the flip side, as it were) relations of domestic authority, relations that in principle involved a responsibility for care and protection, became property rights that could indeed be bought and sold.

The more the economy becomes a matter of the mere distribution of loot, the more inefficiency and unnecessary chains of command actually make sense, since these are the forms of organization best suited to soaking up as much of that loot as possible.

top-down chains of command are not particularly efficient: they tend to promote stupidity among those on top and resentful foot-dragging among those on the bottom. The greater the need to improvise, the more democratic the cooperation tends to become.

the Tanakh itself requires genuine obedience to emerge from faith

It was probably the President's quiet influence that caused Grant to give up his plan, ardently urged on him by Sherman, to avoid the political atmosphere in Washington by having his headquarters in the West; instead, he set up his command near the Army of the Potomac

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

Violence can command respect. Violence can silence and intimidate, and ward off risks and threats. But violence can also cause chaos and a whole chain of unwanted consequences.

David M. Glantz

David M. Glantz

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

You will never go wrong obeying God.