Quotes About Usurp

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.

Giuda cercò l'Inferno, perché la felicità del Signore gli bastava. Pensò che la felicità, come il bene, è un attributo divino, cui non devono usurpare gli uomini.

Pensó que la felicidad, como el bien, es un atributo divino y que no deben usurparlo los hombres.

Pablo ha escrito: "El que se gloría, gloríese en el Señor" (I, Corintios 1:31); Judas buscó el Infierno, porque la dicha del Señor le bastaba. Pensó que la felicidad, como el bien, es un atributo divino y que no deben usurparlo los hombres.2

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any class is fatal to the welfare of the whole

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

The children of God (you know) are heirs of the world, and these things which the wicked have they enjoy by usurpation.

Now I was standing in a forest grove with a witch, a half-demon, a vampire, and a shaman, planning to put an end to a nefarious plot to usurp our powers and alter the path of humankind. Talk about your conspiracy theories.

This war is not for property. This war is about dharma. And dharma is about outgrowing the animal instinct of territoriality and discovering the human ability to share and care. The Kauravas refuse to share their wealth with their own brothers. They refuse to keep their word and use force to usurp other people's wealth. The earth cannot be burdened by such kings. They have to be killed.

factions can become "potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.

The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines, Leto said. Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

Any proposal that would usurp or water down the rights of the nominating committee would not be able to receive political support.

Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man. HENRY SUTTON.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

By the end of 1897, Westinghouse was nearly bankrupt, and it looked as though Morgan would usurp everything that Tesla and Westinghouse had built together.

Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts. -Istak

All of us have the potential to be an Absalom, and all of us have the potential to be a David. Absalom felt rejected by his father, David, so he took revenge by seeking to usurp his father's sphere of authority. David felt rejected by Absalom, but he allowed that rejection to keep him soft and crying out to God.

Curious," Bauchelain said. "What is it you wish us to do for you?" "Usurp the king," Imid Factalo said. "Usurp, as in depose." "Right." "Depose, as in remove." "Yes." "Remove, as in kill.