Quotes About Dominion

If you can own nothing, he owned it.

He is most powerful who has power over himself

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Henry O. Sturges, born in England, March 2nd, 1563. Landed at Roanoke, July 27th, 1587. Friend to the American Revolution, present at the Battles of Trenton and Yorktown, staunch supporter of the North in its hour of need, adviser to presidents, a decorated soldier who distinguished himself in the trenches of the Great War, and member of the Union Brotherhood—a collective of vampires dedicated to preserving the freedom of man and his dominion over the earth.

Conn, with his allies, the Degades, was defeated in ten battles — till at length, for peace sake, he had to grant to Mogh one-half of Ireland — the southern half, henceforth to be known as Leth Mogha, Mogh's half — dominion over which was claimed by Mogh's successors, through almost ten centuries following. The northern half, which he retained under his own rule is since known as Leth Cuinn, Conn's half.

Tell me, is it evil to simply try to control your own life?

Through this liberalism, the government took a kind of benevolent dominion over the fate of minorities and the poor, not to genuinely help them (which would require asking from them the hard work and sacrifice that real development requires), but to achieve immunity for the government from the taint of the past.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race. As

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics, January 16, 2018) Originally published January 1, 1818.

When substitute products are found, with each creature in turn, responsible dominion calls for a reprieve. The warrant expires. The divine mandate is used up. What were once necessary evils become just evils.

When we assert our reason as our authority for dominion, we must use that authority reasonably. When we assert free will as our distinctive human quality, we must use our free will not only in acts of self-interest but in acts of self-restraint.

Real self-respect comes from dominion over self, from true independence.

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

Man understood in the end what man is. He renounces the analysis of God, penetrating the impalpable, in which he has not seen, to give laws to the phantasms of his brain. Man understands that his inheritance is the greater world whose dominion is within his grasp. Tired of useless and presumptuous labor he bows his head and looks about him, and now he sees how our poets are born. Little by little nature's muses open their treasures and start to smile upon us, and lead us far from such labors.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

261. And for me, to be a ruler is a worthwhile ambition, even if you're in Hell.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Dos grandes miedos dominan a los hombres cuando el nihilismo culmina. El uno consiste en el espanto ante el vacío interior, y que le obliga a manifestarse hacia afuera a cualquier precio por medio de despliegue de poder, dominio espacial y velocidad acelerada. El otro opera de fuera hacia dentro como ataque del poderoso mundo a la vez demoniaco y automatizado.