“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it”
Ernest Hemingway
“Obedience alone gives the right to command”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An obedient wife commands her husband”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
Mark Twain
“Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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