Quotes About Decree

Lawless are they that make their wills their law

Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what.

At the North Carolina border, the dull landscape ended abruptly, as if by decree. Suddenly the countryside rose and fell in majestic undulations, full of creeping thickets of laurel, rhododendron and palmetto.

The Cellar had been founded by Presidential Decree in order to legally do the illegal.

Let's keep going. Decree Number Two. Holidays, more holidays. There you go again with an ungovernmental approach! First and foremost are civil liberties, not holidays. Why? What does it matter? Because! That's how revolution is always done: first the tyrant is overthrown, then the new Boss of everything is named, and then come civil liberties.

I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

The Judge decrees, and the Victim suffers the guilt and punishment. But who says there is justice in this dream? True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

Be the monarch of your life and sign the decree to exile suffering and call back from all points of the universe the power of birds and flowers, the vitality of youth. The whole universe will smile when your eyes smile.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

Yet if our chief for plunder only fight, The spoils of Ilion shall thy loss requite, Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.

for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept.

a God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God's truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.

It was decreed that we should leave French territory until I was "allowed back," but I had to keep renting Nellcôte as some kind of bond, at $2,400 a week.

Well as, one judge said to the other, "Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary."

Hofmannsthal once observed that the activity of modern poets "stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were all building on a pyramid, the monstrous residence of a dead king or an unborn god.

An assembly was again summoned, and different opinions were expressed by different speakers. In the former assembly, Cleon the son of Cleaenetus had carried the decree condemning the Mytilenaeans to death. He was the most violent of the citizens, and at that time exercised by far the greatest influence over the people.

Forgiveness inspires a decree from the King, which in turn gives us authority to command these evil spirits to release their prisoner.

The result was a remarkable December 30 decree that gave the Vatican its first ever anti–money laundering law, set to go into effect the following April 1.27 "The Prevention and Countering of Illegal Activities in the Area of Monetary and Financial Dealings" was issued as a motu proprio, a document historically signed personally by the Pope. Benedict took full responsibility for the decision.

There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.