Usurp Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows…
— John Quincy Adams
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And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and…
— Samuel Adams
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Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of…
— Immanuel Kant
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Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
— Erica Jong
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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,…
— Sam Keen
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In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...…
— James A. Garfield
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Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever…
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,…
— Tacitus
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Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the…
— Geneen Roth
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I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE.
— Shawn Michaels
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp…
— Os Guinness
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Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.…
— Eduardo Galeano
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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by…
— George Washington
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Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and…
— John Locke
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Curious,†Bauchelain said. “What is it you wish us to do for you?†“Usurp the king,†Imid Factalo said. “Usurp, as in depose.†“Right.†“Depose,…
— Steven Erikson
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Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve…
— George Washington
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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the…
— Laurence Tribe
Who Wrote These Usurp Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Usurp Quotes as follows: