Quotes with dominion

  • This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Alexander Pope A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Dylan Thomas Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Alexander the Great I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • J. Swartz Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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  • John Paul II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Edmund Burke The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Dylan Thomas Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Helen Keller God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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