Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Boldness and decision command often even in evil the respect and concurrence of mankind.
The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
Wherever I look I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
How shall I be able to rule over others that have not full power and command of myself?
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.
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line no final deadline no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process the work of many decisions.
Heroism on command senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Nature has not got two voices you know one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery you shall not kill you shall not steal you shall not covet and so on are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.