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Letter "O" » orders
«The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you.»
Author: Jello Biafra
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
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«Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.»
«A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
First Law, orders, robot, robotics, robots, Second law, second law of
«I'm the original take-orders girl.»
«A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.»
Author: Robert Heinlein
| Keywords:
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«If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
aversion, aversions, feigning, humiliation, incompetent, in public, namely, orders, performs, privately, ritual, solemnly, sympathy, unhesitatingly
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
appeals, Appeal To Reason, besieged, crusade, crusades, crusading, French Revolution, instituted, instituting, irresistible, monastic, orders, Saracen, The Crusades, the French, The French Revolution, The Passions, Troy
«I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
constituted, courts, court order, deplore, deplored, deploring, orders, Orders of, troops
«I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Mankind,
Unity
| Keywords:
boundaries, orders
«I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
awakened, Awakening The, cabinet, cabinets, case, emergency, in case, meeting, national, orders, The Awakening, The Emergency
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