#command

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#command #establishes #his #noise #reason

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#command #only #people #their #themselves

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#defend #democracy #father #general #happen

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#command #deadline #decisions #definition #final

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. ↗

— Learned Hand

#democracy #justice #keep #must #ration

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

Those who can command themselves command others. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#others #themselves #those #who

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

— Horace

#free #himself #man #then #who

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

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commanded #must #obeyed