Quotes About Command

To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.

Bears?" Epaphroditus wrinkled his nose. "Everyone knows Prometheus was tormented by vultures. Every day they tore out his entrails, and every night he was miraculously healed, so that the ordeal was endlessly repeated." Martial laughed. "The trainer who can induce vultures to attack on command will be able to name any price! I suspect we'll see a lot of bears today.

I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

Leila Saatchi never gave orders, never had to. It was a knack she had. Her suggestions were so compelling.

He felt way powerful having a physical control over this man who had interfered in his life so adeptly. The control was that of seduction.

Mine now," he said aloud, then laughed softly. "All mine.

Go back to your people now. Your master wants you. He has waited a long time.

She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.

Imperius Rex.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

You Englishman, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid, that you quit your fortresses and return into your own country, or if not, I shall make such mayhem that the memory of it will be perpetual. - Joan of Arc

Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and then 18 months at a good civilian job, a phone call had brought the retired command sergeant major back on active duty to become the senior enlisted adviser of all international forces in Afghanistan.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

En aquest seu afany de poder, en necessitaven d'altres sobre qui exercir aquest poder, i aquests altres som nosaltres.

I worked because I could control it.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne

We so willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever, and are so ready to usurp upon dominion, every one does so naturally aspire to liberty and power, that no utility derived from the wit or valour of those he employs ought to be so dear to a superior as a downright and sincere obedience. TO obey more upon the account of understanding than of subjection, is to corrupt the office of command.

You're in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love's not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It'll never be enough. I want eternity.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

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