Dominion Quote by Joseph Addison Download Open image “Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.” — Joseph Addison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dominion Mind Psychology
The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property. — Rousas John Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Understanding the infinite power of our minds exposes us to complete dominion over our environment and its vices. — Dr Jankada Copy Share Image
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could fly like… — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The greatest dangers you can get into are the ones you see coming. The ones that just happen are just roads waiting to be… — Melody Manful Copy Share Image
“Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God… — R.C. Sproul Jr Copy Share Image
The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God made him… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. — Thomas Gage Copy Share Image