#commands

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

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A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

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I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. ↗

— Robert Greene

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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

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