Decree Quotes

126 quotes by 106 authors

Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical… — Steven Johnson
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees… — William Ames
No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something… — Unknown Author
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier. — Ludwig von Mises
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described… — Ludwig von Mises
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft… — Laozi
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or… — Umair Haque
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they… — Isabel Paterson
I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel… — Belle Boyd
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great… — Martin Luther
The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree. — Fritz Sauckel
It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees… — Thomas Boston
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law â€“ insofar… — Geoffrey Hodson
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and… — Oswald Chambers
Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or… — Baruch Spinoza
A stately pleasure-dome decree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. — Karel Capek
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their… — John Donne

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