There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people. — James Anderson Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
