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Quotes About Dominion

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, with a single powerful blow, shattered for all time a complex article of fundamental articles of our cultural faith; that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it; that the world was designed to do this, that the world was on our side; that God himself had fashioned the world specifically to support our efforts to conquer and rule it.
~ Daniel Quinn
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
~ William Golding
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.
~ William Golding
Those created creations were treated like tools that talked, their sentience an annoying product of magic noise, by those little mortal demiurges who thought dominion a natural by-product of expertise or creation.
~ China Mieville
niente vale quanto essere il padrone di te stesso.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!
~ Chris Oyakhilome
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
When the Powers are unmasked, they lose their dominion over men's souls and the jubilant exclamation arises, "Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus!
~ Hendrikus Berkhof
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
~ Henry Adams
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
~ Henry Miller
The directive to "fill the earth" (Gen. 1:28) is not primarily a reproductive command. The "filling" of the earth is a cuh«re/activity.
~ Henry R. Van Til
An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
~ James F. Byrnes
As a Virginian, I am proud of Dominion and SunEnergy1 for bringing utility scale solar to the state.
~ Denny Hamlin
The more readers use the Bible app, the more valuable it becomes to them. Switching to a different digital Bible - God forbid - becomes less likely with each new revelation a user types into the app, further securing YouVersion's dominion.
~ Nir Eyal
Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.
~ David Suzuki
Avoid having power over anyone, unless it be the power of life and death.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Toute passion est bonne quand on en est maître, mais mauvaise quand on en est assujetti.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
~ Helen Keller
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
~ John Quincy Adams
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
~ Claudius
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
~ David Lynch
When I see someone deride things that women and girls find pleasure in, all I see is someone fearful that women will overtake the culture they've had dominion over for so long.
~ Leigh Bardugo
and hand back my throne.
~ Tui T. Sutherland