Following Orders Quotes

• 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

  Army, Order, People

  "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.

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• Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Creer, Hombres, Orden

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• 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

  War, Order, Criminals

  Discurso a la Nación -- Ultimátum a Saddam Hussein, pronunciado el 17 de marzo de 2003 desde el Cross Hall de la Casa Blanca.

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• 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

  Football, Army, Thinking

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

  Patrick Ness

  Order, Dawn, Excuse

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• 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

  Responsibility, Thinking, Order

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

  Ted Rall

  Government, Order, Support

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• 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

  Order, Knowing, Agendas

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• Durante un tiempo, en mi adolescencia, estaba seguro de que lo tenía. Se trataba de llegar al cielo. Si el cielo existía y duraba para siempre, entonces una mera vida dedicada a seguir escrupulosamente las órdenes era una pequeña inversión para una recompensa infinita. Un día, sin embargo, me di cuenta de que ya no era creyente, y al darme cuenta de eso, ya no podía volver atrás.

  Alan Alda

  Orden, Para Siempre, Cielo

  Alan Alda (2009). "Cosas que oí mientras hablaba conmigo mismo", p.9, Random House

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• ¿Qué prueba más diabólica de irresponsabilidad cósmica que una Naturaleza que, habiendo inventado el sexo para mezclar genes, permite que surja, entre todos sus perfumados e hipnóticos alicientes para aparearse, una tribu incansable de espiroquetas y virus que nos torturan y matan por seguir órdenes?

  John Updike

  Sexo, Salud, Orden

  John Updike (2012). "Autoconciencia: Memorias", p.230, Random House

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• 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

  War, Order, World

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.83, Broadway Books

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• Cuando se informó al general Washington de que el ejército se entregaba con frecuencia a los juramentos, envió inmediatamente la siguiente orden: El general lamenta ser informado de que la estúpida y perversa práctica de maldecir y jurar profanamente, un vicio poco conocido hasta ahora en el ejército americano, se está poniendo de moda. Que los hombres y oficiales reflexionen "que no podemos esperar la bendición del cielo sobre nuestro ejército si lo insultamos con nuestra impiedad e insensatez."

  George Washington

  Moda, Perdón, Ejército

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• 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

  Order, Training, Too Much

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.20, MIRA

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• 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

  Moving, Fate, Order

  Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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