Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais

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

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
John Buford

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I cannot command winds and weather.
Horatio Nelson

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
Markus Wolf

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
John Kricfalusi

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Billy Sunday

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
Daniel J. Bernstein

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
Ted Olson

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
Eddie Campbell

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
Lynn Abbey

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Tom G. Palmer

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson