Quotes About Dominion

There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

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

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.

In England, episcopal tyranny succeeded to popish cruelty, which, in the year 1620, obliged many pious people to leave their native land and settle in America; these were followed by others in 1629, who laid the foundations of several gospel churches, which have increased amazingly since that time, and the Redeemer has fixed his throne in that country, where but a little time ago, Satan had universal dominion

I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute.

dominion in India shall long cease to exist, and when the sources which it once yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrance … In truth I love India a little more than my own country.'87

a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night. BOOK THREE

23rd May, 1872.—There seems but little prospect of Christianity spreading by ordinary means among Mohamadans. Their pride is a great obstacle, and is very industriously nurtured by its votaries. No new invention or increase of power on the part of Christians seems to disturb the self-complacent belief that ultimately all power and dominion in this world will fall into the hands of Moslems. Mohamad

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!

You will remember me for what I truly am: A God!

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!