Usurped Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers
— Abel P. Upshur
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
— Marc Maron
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For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
— Henry Fielding
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Usurped Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Usurped Quotes as follows: