Command

A command is an order to do something.

Quotes

• Mentira la que manda
  Mentira comanda
  • Lie rules
    Lie commands
    • Manu Chao, Mentira, Clandestino (1998)

• A command can express no more than an ought or a shall, because it is a universal, but it does not express an 'is'; and this at once makes plain its deficiency. Against such commands Jesus sets virtue, i.e., a loving disposition, which makes the content of the command superfluous and destroys its form as a command, because that form implies an opposition between a commander and something resisting the command.
  • G. W. F. Hegel, "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate"

• Commands- you're sure to hear from above, if you're placed down below.
  • Suman Pokhrel

• Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.
  • George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, Jon (VII)

See also

• Authoritarianism
• Authority
• Control
• Dictatorship
• Duty
• Government
• Law
• Leadership
• Obedience
• Obligation
• Oppression
• Ruler
• Servitude
• Tyranny