Usurp Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE. — Shawn Michaels
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Usurp Quotes by George Washington
• 1 Usurp Quote by John Quincy Adams
• 1 Usurp Quote by Samuel Adams
• 1 Usurp Quote by Immanuel Kant
• 1 Usurp Quote by Erica Jong
• 1 Usurp Quote by Sam Keen
• 1 Usurp Quote by James A. Garfield
• 1 Usurp Quote by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
• 1 Usurp Quote by Tacitus
• 1 Usurp Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• 1 Usurp Quote by Geneen Roth
• 1 Usurp Quote by Shawn Michaels
• 1 Usurp Quote by Arundhati Roy
• 1 Usurp Quote by Os Guinness
• 1 Usurp Quote by Eduardo Galeano
• 1 Usurp Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1 Usurp Quote by John Locke
• 1 Usurp Quote by Steven Erikson
• 1 Usurp Quote by Laurence Tribe