#command

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#command #duty #gives #humiliated #imposes

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#does #kill #others #people #say

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#developed #faculties #faculty #genius #highly

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#commandments #dictation #get #getting #good

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. ↗

— Horace

#free #himself #man #then #who

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

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

#attractive #attractive people #cnn #commands #could

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#being #bid #breach #commandment #did

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#emotion #inability #restrain #retain #self