Quotes with commands

  • The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • St. John Chrysostom Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
    As quoted in Champlains Dream (2008)
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • George Orwell He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Angelina Grimke If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Edmund Burke If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Blaise Pascal Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • W. H. Auden Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Albrecht Durer The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brit Hume You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Every good servant does not all commands.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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