Quotes About Supremacy

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

There was always somebody at the top who dictated the terms, specifically or by implication, that those below had to accept. - Kurt Wallander

So Henry Adams, well aware that he could not succeed as a scholar, and finding his social position beyond improvement or need of effort, betook himself to the single ambition which otherwise would scarcely have seemed a true outcome of the college, though it was the last remnant of the old Unitarian supremacy. He took to the pen. He wrote.

Quae quondam rerum naturam sola gubernas.

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

The control of information makes history.

Somehow human authority is never enough

The church simply can't afford to forget the lesson of the Reformation about the utter supremacy of the gospel in everything the church does. Elie

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

one exists only when fixed in definite relations of domination ...

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

I was made to rule the darkness.

stay Christian while rejecting supremacy and embracing solidarity instead.

In Christ, God is supreme, but not in the old discredited paradigm of supremacy: God is the supreme healer, the supreme friend, the supreme lover, the supreme life-giver who self-empties in gracious love for all. The king of kings and lord of lords is the servant of all and the friend of sinners. The so-called weakness and foolishness of God are greater than the so-called power and wisdom of human regimes.

If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be pollution in the rivers and toxins in the air. If enough individuals are full of supremacy and privilege in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases. But

And we are coming to see that this repentance and conversion do not express infidelity to Christ, but fidelity, because we are coming to see in the life and teaching of Christ, and especially in the cross and resurrection of Christ, a radical rejection of dominating supremacy in all its forms.

Oppression theology and supremacist spirituality developed in the belief ecosystem of an angry God who needed appeasement in order to dispense grace, who favored some and disfavored others, and who welcomed the favored into religious institutions that accumulated and hoarded privilege and protected the status quo.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

Moist waited. Lord Vetinari could outstare a statue and make even a statue start to feel nervous and confess. Moist's counter was a fetching grin, which he knew annoyed Vetinari beyond measure, and there was absolute silence in the Oblong Office while blank stare and cheery grin battled it out for supremacy in some other dimension.

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject - the proper penitent, groveling at a woman's slipper.