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Quotes About Dominion

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
~ William Blake
No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.
~ Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
~ C. S. Lewis
exploration is hardly ever motivated by the desire to explore. Part the curtains of curiosity, and you'll find individuals hungry for political, cultural, or economic dominion funding the expedition.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion.
~ Newt Gingrich
autocríticos y demasiado blandos hacia los pueblos que habían subyugado: Hay ingleses que se reprochan haber gobernado mal el país. ¿Por qué? Porque los indios no muestran entusiasmo por su dominio. Afirmo que los ingleses han gobernado la India muy bien, pero que su error ha sido esperar entusiasmo del pueblo que gobiernan.
~ Niall Ferguson
La retórica europea de los nazis halló especial resonancia en todos aquellos conservadores para quienes el dominio alemán parecía un mal menor frente al comunismo soviético.
~ Niall Ferguson
When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
ALL STATES, ALL POWERS, THAT HAVE HELD AND HOLD RULE OVER MEN HAVE been and are either republics or principalities.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When the duke occupied the Romagna he found it under the rule of weak masters, who rather plundered their subjects than ruled them, and gave them more cause for disunion than for union, so that the country was full of robbery, quarrels, and every kind of violence; and so, wishing to bring back peace and obedience to authority, he considered it necessary to give it a good governor. Thereupon
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Sono questi dominii cosí acquistati, o consueti a vivere sotto uno principe, o usi ad essere liberi; et acquistonsi, o con le armi d'altri o con le proprie, o per fortuna o per virtù.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
He had all the attributes of a king except a kingdom.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The true power lies with you.
~ Christine Feehan
Our near absolute dominion over nature has, however, confronted us with one brilliant and ironic and inescapable insight. The decryption of DNA is not only useful in putting a merciful but overdue end to theories of creationism and racism but also enlightening in instructing us that we are ourselves animals.
~ Christopher Hitchens
All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but obey'd in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man! A sound magician is a mighty god.
~ Christopher Marlowe
KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery Have not in life or death made miserable?
~ Christopher Marlowe
USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god.
~ Christopher Marlowe
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the the universe
~ Christopher Marlowe
I am my only master
~ L.J. Smith
La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. Es la vida tu dueña, o la muerte.
~ Laini Taylor
It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys.
~ Gina Apostol
INQUIETUD: A aquel que está en mi poder, el mundo no le sirve de nada.
~ Goethe
Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.
~ Proverb