Decree Quote by Italo Calvino

“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not…

— Italo Calvino

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings,…

— John Dickinson

Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good…

— Myles Munroe

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or…

— John Burroughs

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will…

— Daniel Ellsberg

State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

— Robert Browning

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed…

— Adrian Rogers

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant…

— John Calvin