Usurped Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics… — Aberjhani
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens… — James Madison
It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire — John L. Dagg
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other… — Elie Wiesel
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in… — James Madison
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)… — Thomas Jefferson
Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers — Abel P. Upshur
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage;… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des… — Karl Marx
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up… — Louis Thomas McFadden
The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our… — Daniel Ellsberg
For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of… — Seth Lloyd
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.… — Haruki Murakami
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of… — Milan Kundera
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand… — William Godwin

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21 authors contributed a total of 23 Usurped Quotes as follows: