Obey Orders Quotes

There is … no minister who would not think it safer to act by orders than from his own discretion.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

In matters of business deal only with the commander of the army, column, or party in which you serve. Never give orders to anyone at all, and reserve your directions or advice for the C.O., however great the temptation (for efficiency’s sake).

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

If you want to lead, you have to heed.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I must confess, that if left to act entirely upon my own judgment, I should not have recognized this provisional government …. But I claim no right to set up my own judgment against that of my government, believing strict obedience to the wishes of my government my first and sole duty.

The soldier then is, no matter in what light we examine his position, a ‘hired assassin’ – his first duty, he is told, is to ‘obey’. To obey whom? His superior officers, who in turn must obey the Government. When the mandate goes forth, ‘Kill’, he must kill and dare not ask the reason why. The government under whose orders he serves may have been elected to power on some question of internal administration … but as soon as it is in power it has the right to launch all the military and naval forces …

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.