What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

My mother is very very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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.

Nature has not got two voices you know one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

The fact is that love is of two kinds one which commands and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not 'What happened?' but rather 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.