“I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.”
Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
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"Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned", in Esquire.com (26 December 2012) http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a17607/ronda-rousey-mma-quotes-0113/
Variant: People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It'shard. If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.”
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Context: Without even entering into the question of the world economy’s ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody’s productive activity, it’s apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is not the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
Source: The Angel's Game
"Hello angry Christians" (26 September 2007) http://youtube.com/watch?v=atTSwau9fwM
2007
“I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.”
Excerpt from his vice presidential acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention — http://theweek.com/speedreads/637487/mike-pence-im-christian-conservative-republican--that-order (July 21, 2016), as quoted in Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House https://www.amazon.com/Piety-Power-Pence-Taking-White/dp/0062868780 (2019), by Tom LoBianco
Trump/Pence 2016 Presidential Campaign