Quotes About Dominion

I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An' fellow-mortal! Robert Burns To a Mouse

It was hard work to rule a kingdom, much less seven of them.

In this world the weak are the victims of the strong.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

Would you want to rule the world? Eve asked Roarke. Or even the country? Good God, no. Too much work for too little remuneration, and very little time left over to enjoy your kingdom. He glanced over. I much prefer owning as much of the world as humanly possible. But running it? No thanks.

In their world, dominion was established through force and manipulation by individuals of the male persuasion. Position was earned or lost by contests of will that were often bloody and resulted in a body count. When one came from that orientation, one most certainly did not expect to be castrated in one's own galley by a woman who didn't even have a knife. And would likely have to get up on a stepladder to remove said anatomy. -Assail's thoughts

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

Dominion over his environment was supposed to be a hallmark of man. Now, that dominion is almost wholly vicarious, derived from the past ingenuity of others. In urban and industrial communities it is never direct, physical or spontaneous. Our implements are at twelve removes and we may all live to live inside so many Thermos flasks. It may be well to remember how to use a pair of sticks and a stone.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

My feet are locked upon the rough bark.It took the whole of CreationTo produce my foot, my each feather:Now I hold Creation in my footOr fly up, and revolve it all slowly—I kill where I please because it is all mine.

humans began to erect fences to protect their property from the wild. Some of these fences were actual ones, like corrals, and some were symbolic, like the Jewish faith's sanctioning human dominion over all of Earth's creatures, and, later, the Christian faith's decreeing that humans had souls but animals didn't.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.