Government Orders Quotes

#1. The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.

Albert Einstein

#2. I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

Masaru Emoto

#3. Maud had feared this. Fitz was no compromiser. He believed that Britain should issue orders and the world should obey. The idea that the government might have to negotiate with others as equals was abhorrent to him. And there were distressingly many who agreed.

Ken Follett

#4. You can never change the truths of history. You can only learn from them and use them to try and build a better world.

Timothy Pina

#5. Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

Cherie Blair

#6. Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

Nathaniel Fick

#8. Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

Ted Rall

#9. We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

Dorothy Denning

#10. Good health should be your greatest asset.

Averyl Hill

#11. Most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.

Danah Boyd

#12. Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

Sandra Lee

#13. Canon gives orders that no more prayers are to be offered up for the British government.

Charles Kaiser

#14. Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling.

Alexander Pushkin

#15. I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd

#16. It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

James Jesus Angleton

#17. Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

Jonah Goldberg

#18. War pictures are always fascinating for people; they were for me growing up, even though I'm not nuts about war."

"War is the ultimate conflict, and conflict is the basis of drama to begin with.

Clint Eastwood

#19. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Ralph Nader

#20. What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Alexander Berkman

#21. The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

Hans Frank

#22. The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

Fanny Kemble

#23. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye;

Robert Frost

#24. All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ...

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#25. He holds her in this moment and the world disappears.

Gwen Calvo

#26. Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#27. The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#28. If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

#29. The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!

Andre Vltchek

#30. If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.

Luke Evans

#31. I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

Tod Machover

#32. Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Arthur Hertzberg