Quotes About Command

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.

Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order Sam Vimes

Actors had a habit of filling all the space around them.

It's All Officers, sir. They broke into a run. You always did for an All Officers. The people in trouble might well be you.

It is amazing what people will obey, if a clear and confident voice is used

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants—the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Mr. Prendick, do as I instructed, or I will have the significant pleasure of shooting you.

Marriage was not only impossible but unnecessary. He had only to say "Come" and she must obey; it was her destiny.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

Take them off!" I told him, grabbing the front of his jeans. "Take everything off!" "I'm trying!" "Try harder!

There was a time when you trusted me with your life!" "And there was a time when you used your brain instead of blindly following orders

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.

You will not look at me," she heard him say to the valets. "You will see only her." A silence. Then, "And you will not look at her breasts.

I am the law." "Apparently. Heil." I click my heels together and salute.

Cease speaking, wench. You will bring that sweet ass over here and kiss me now.

Margaret Darlington had the kind of power that made sane people do insane things.

Her age was one of the reasons she always got away with it. In Africa elderly people still command respect.

You must listen!" the tiny monster squeaked. She grabbed it as it made to climb onto the dashboard, and then she shook it fiercely. "No!" she bellowed. "You must listen!

In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

herrschaft, a relationship of dominance and subordinance.3

Control of these fields is very eminently a matter of political power. One