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Quotes About Dominion

The world is his, who has money to go over it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you possess possesses you in return.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Los judíos incluso estaban exentos de rendir culto directo al emperador, algo que Roma imponía prácticamente a cualquier otra comunidad religiosa bajo su dominio. Todo
~ Reza Aslan
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.
~ Tony Evans
Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
~ Andre Gide
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.
~ Milan Kundera
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief
~ Anthony Horowitz
The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.
~ Edward Gibbon
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
~ Francis Bacon
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
~ Lucretius
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
~ Pope Francis
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.
~ William Ross Wallace
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
~ Henry Miller
I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
~ Robert Burns
In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.
~ Michael Sandel
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The imagination is man's power over nature.
~ Wallace Stevens
Man must conquer nature.
~ Mao Zedong
Culture means control over nature.
~ Johan Huizinga
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
~ Thucydides