#commands

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

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

— Immanuel Kant

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My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself. ↗

— Jared Leto

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't. ↗

— Brit Hume

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

— Albrecht Durer

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

— Marquis de Sade

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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one. ↗

— Wally Schirra

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The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. ↗

— Mary Antin

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