Command Authority

Famous quotes containing the words command and/or authority:

    “By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman, pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)