Quotes About Dominion

CREON: Am I to rule for others, or myself? HAEMON: A State for one man is no State at all. CREON: The State is his who rules it, so 'tis held.

tis greater far To rule a people than a wilderness.

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

Living a natural life is living in dominion of a darkened mind

Él dominará hasta los confines de la tierra", profetizó Miqueas. No habrá ninguna resistencia que no sea aplacada. Nuestra seguridad no será amenazada por fuerzas extranjeras. Toda rodilla se doblará y toda lengua lo confesará como Señor. Toda la Tierra será llena de Su gloria.

The good tidings of the preacher, the peace and salvation that he publishes, are boiled down into one sentence: "Your God reigns!" Cotton Mather applies this, with full justification, to the preacher: "The great design . . . of a Christian preacher [is] to restore the throne and dominion of God in the souls of men.

He ruleth all the roost.

The dead belonged to her as no one living could have done.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

In an ordinary despotism, the powers of a despot are limited by his bodily capacity, and by the calls of pleasure; he is but one man; there are but twelve hours in his day, and he is not disposed to employ more than a small part in dull business; he keeps the rest for the court, or the harem, or for society.

Vinet gave his wife the terrible, fixed, cold look with which men enforce their absolute dominion. The hapless helot, punished incessantly for not having the one thing that was wanted of her, a fortune, took up her cards.

To sum up, the world is mine without effort of mine, and the world has not the slightest hold on me.

To keep under, that is to submit. The Soul can submit to God at the time when it can send itself under the power and authority and dominion that God has over it.

Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men's way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.

Si tolga l'uomo dalla scena e sarà tolta per sempre la causa della fame e della fatica. L'uomo è la sola creatura che consuma senza produrre. Egli non dà latte, non fa uova, è troppo debole per tirare l'aratro, non può correre abbastanza velocemente per prendere i conigli. E tuttavia è il signore di tutti gli animali.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura e dominio della paura, ma non assenza di paura.

And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.