“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 (1987) American judoka, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and actress
"Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned", in Esquire.com (26 December 2012) http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a17607/ronda-rousey-mma-quotes-0113/
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
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
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Wicked Pleasure
“Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.”
Bob Black (1951) American anarchist
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.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"Hello angry Christians" (26 September 2007) http://youtube.com/watch?v=atTSwau9fwM <br class="br">2007
“I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.”
Mike Pence (1959) 48th Vice President of the United States
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 <br class="br">Trump/Pence 2016 Presidential Campaign