Quotes About Command

Silence your dog, captain!

total of around 300,000 Russian soldiers are believed to have been killed by their own commanders—more than the entire toll of British troops who perished at enemy hands in the course of the war.

Intelligent men found that among the hardest parts of war was the need to accept orders from stupid ones.

the Please was more like a command than a request

It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.

my voice firm as I took charge. Keeping the surface polished.

Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

God did nothing more than this: he willed it, he spoke it, and it was.

You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her." Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would you do?" "Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words.

Search "Power words" on Google and you'll find plenty of them. Or

Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.

potestas is specific, auctoritas is extendable and can grow.

I'm just as bad at following orders from men.

If you raise your voice when giving a command to your child, he will learn to associate your tone and sound level with your intention. If you have trained him to respond to a bellow, don't blame him if he ignores your first thirteen calm "suggestions" while waiting for your fevered pitch to reach the point where he interprets it to be a real command.

Someone's hand clamps down on my shoulder and it's one of the men trimming the vegetables on Baldwin Street. He wears a white apron stained with dirt and smears of green and red. "Go from here," he says to me.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car. "Find the Disir." Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion. "Is that wise?" he asked. "It is neccessary.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

The last thing they need is Lieutenant Gorman telling them to lay down suppressing fire with flame units and fall back by squads.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say

military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles.

Flynn was "a colonel in a general's uniform," according to one senior intelligence figure.)