#command

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#nature #nature

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him. ↗

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

#obedience #power #nature

If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible. (23) ↗

— Sam Harris

#morality #religion #imagination

Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #to-command-and-collar #baseball

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#cannot #command #except #her #obeying

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ↗

— Aristotle

#commanded #fear #gained #i #i do

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#buffaloes #command #killed #major #miles

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#first #great #scare #them #you

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

#bend #body #brain #chasing #commands