Decrees Quotes

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Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in… — Phillips Brooks
Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No;… — Brigham Young
There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks. — Judith Martin
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is… — Tom Robbins
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The war is in the mountains,â€ he said. â€œFor as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The… — Roland Barthes
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still… — Tess Gerritsen
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to… — Virginia Woolf
The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. — Matthew Henry
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no… — Horace
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern… — Max Weber
No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the… — Paul Watson
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do. — Sherwin B. Nuland
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. — Felix Frankfurter
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. — Virgil
'The Founding Fathers established a nation under God; Ruled not by arbitrary decrees of Kings or whims, of entrenched elites but by the consent of… — Andrew Guzaldo
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power… — Aleksandr Lebed
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all… — Mark Twain

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