Decrees Quotes
68 quotes by 57 authors
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude…
— J. Oliver Buswell
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are…
— R C Sproul
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
— Maria Montessori
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
— John Dickinson
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Do not stand still disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you;…
— Joseph Alleine
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
— Phillips Brooks
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Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
— Marion LeRoy Burton
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The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses…
— Alex Kozinski
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The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks…
— John Burroughs
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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a…
— Jessica Mitford
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Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be…
— Queen Victoria
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Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
— Robert Breault
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It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and…
— Galileo Galilei
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