But it is balanced by another, opposing belief - that is, that commentators follow the injunction apocryphally attributed to the 17th-century Quaker George Fox: 'speak truth to power'.
"I plan to follow the injunction in full", he says, adding that "their lawyers seem to be trying to use this partially as a publicity stunt, we have been told to mostly keep quiet by our own".
Along the way, there are images poking fun at how hard Muslims find it to follow the injunction to be better behaved in thought and deed during Ramadan (one image has the caption: "Since you can't engage in gossip, lust or obscenity during Ramadan, let's reconnect in August").
Hawking followed the injunction that each equation would halve his sales, but his editors rightly realised that allusions to "the mind of God" would be a boost.
We should have followed the injunction inscribed on John Knox House in Edinburgh, namely: "Lufe God abufe al and yi nychtbour as yi self".
Orange, the French company that won the contract to sell iPhones in France, followed the injunction ordered by the German court and sold both locked and unlocked versions of Apple's product.
CHARMING when he wanted to be, clever, in a cunning way, and devoted to his wife: that would be about the sum of any verdict on Slobodan Milosevic were the obituarist to follow the Roman injunction to say nothing but good when speaking of the dead.
Rather, the appropriate response would be to follow the scriptural injunction to work out one's salvation in fear and trembling, knowing that an all-powerful and provident God is also working through us to achieve his ends.
Out west, as McCain should know, it is best, on delivering an insult, to follow the hero's injunction in Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you say that, smile!" Almost everyone says McCain had erred, and indeed "evil" would not be true of the ordinary members of the Christian Coalition, who are genuinely shocked by cultural violence and the dissolution of the family, but Robertson and Falwell?
Following the Emersonian injunction that there is no history, only biography, Kamp, who is a writer and editor at Vanity Fair and GQ, presents a narrative driven by personalities.
It was a place that welcomed people of all ages, but only if they followed the biblical injunction to become as little children, by agreeing to see life through Alice's eyes.
