Held Sway Quotes
- Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. — Carol P. Christ
- Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
- We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive… — Deepak Chopra
- It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what… — J M Coetzee
- In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay… — Charles C. Mann
- Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the… — Rich Lowry
- Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The… — Ida B. Wells