Quotes About Following Orders

#1. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

Patrick Ness

#2. We don't want him, we want you.-- Cooper Hawkes.

This isn't a dating service. We're in the middle of a war. If we stop following orders, there will be no order. It'll all fall apart.- T.C. McQueen

James Morrison

#3. Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge.

Evan Currie

#4. We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z

Max Brooks

#5. Following orders is right. Giving orders for the wrong reasons isn't.

Aleksandr Voinov

#6. We've always assumed The Aegis is all-knowing highly trained and organized but it's nothing but a cult, isn't it ? The weak and uneducated being led by those with their own agendas. Brainwashed lemmings following orders without question.

Larissa Ione

#7. Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders, doing as you're told.

Ilona Andrews

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

Ted Rall

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

Donna Lynn Hope

#10. What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

John Updike

#11. We were defined by what we did. What we had to do.
I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.

Pete Hautman

#12. The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

Joel Stein

#13. Most aspects of my training didn't agree with me. There wasn't as much bossing around as I'd hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.

Rachel Vincent

#14. The claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.

Marc Okrand

#15. I promise to shoot anything, human or monster, that threatens me while I'm gone'. He made the Boy Scout sign, three fingers to heaven. 'You can bail me out of jail and explain that i was just following orders'.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#17. There was a time when you trusted me with your life!"
"And there was a time when you used your brain instead of blindly following orders,

Karen Chance

#18. Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate) - that's how difficult it is!

Burton Watson

#19. War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

George W. Bush

#20. I was just following orders. The people elected me. But who elected the people?

Stephen King

#21. He looked longingly out the window at the towering skyline of New York City and thought about jumping. It would hurt less than following orders.

Kelly Moran

#22. We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

Ron Kind

#23. You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

Robert Graves

#24. By following what they believe are stick orders from the top, many typical managers tend to concentrate on working within budget and resource constraint --- thereby developing a boxed-in, "can't do" mindset.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#25. One good thing is that I've been following the priest's orders to meditate on how I've hurt people. It's helped me recognize that we can't help but make mistakes, even when our intentions are good.

James Patterson

#26. Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casius
oh i do,I'm just so pissed i had extra left over - Jace

D.D. Barant

#27. Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.

Bob Hope

#28. In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Noam Chomsky

#29. Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

Phil Ochs

#30. orders at home. Over the following

Jeff Hobbs

#31. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Banksy

#32. You'll find I'm remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.

Victoria Aveyard

#33. I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

Murray Walker

#34. I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

Janny Wurts

#35. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.

Terry Pratchett

#36. I was only following God's orders.

Joseph Kallinger