Dominion Quotes
200 Dominion quotes by 160 unique authors
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
— Alexander the Great
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
— Guru Nanak
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and…
— John Henry Newman
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already…
— Pope John Paul II
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
— Alexander Pope
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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy…
— Murray Rothbard
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The…
— Lysander Spooner
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And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.
— Hugh Nibley
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Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's…
— Emma Goldman
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Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;…
— Emma Goldman
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The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things…
— Jonathan Franzen
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He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the…
— Primo Levi
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It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.
— Junot Diaz
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