Commands Quotes

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Passion, Two

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke

Rich, Free, Poor

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.
Blaise Pascal

Reason, Far, Fools

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Two, Voices

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

Religion, Divine, Duties

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul, Nor, Virtuous

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

God, Makes, Fast

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

Power, Long, Him

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Jean Baudrillard

Sex, Price, Higher

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells

Respect, Wise, Affection

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Human, Moral, Models

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio

Forward, Brain, Start

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
George Whitefield

God, Men, Against

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

Law, Fashion, Moral

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, History, Live

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Martin Buber

God, Human, Quality

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

Life, Violence, Both

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul Ricoeur

Good, Law, Moral

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Society, Hell, Obeyed

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

Heart, Thinking, Done

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Robert Greene

God, Power, Whose

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Anne Hutchinson

Understand, Light, Rules

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke

God, Men, Happy

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Italo Calvino

Story, Voice, Ear

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

Respect, Nor, Neither

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
David Brainerd

God, Business, Others

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
Sheryl Crow

Music, Experience, Feelings

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
Jack Black

Power, Rock, Creative

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer

God, Opinion, Artist

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Hakeem Olajuwon

Win, Attention, Retire

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