Ascendancy Quotes

• I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.143, Algora Publishing

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• As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Fighting, Long, Justice

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “The Contest in America”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

  Nick Lampson

  Rights, Democracy, President

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• This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

  Taylor Hackford

  Winning, Men, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

  Lytton Strachey

  Political, France, Advertising

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Issues, Guy

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• The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Tree, Gains

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

  John Nelson Darby

  Exercise, Soul, Solitude

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• There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Aristocracy, Ingredients

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.187, Cambridge University Press

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• I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

  Jack London

  Running, Philosophy, Two

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• The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Way, He Man

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• There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Assumption, Impulse, Persons

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Strong, Past

  "The Power of the Feminine Self: Manhood Liberated from Violence Against Women" by Payam Akhavan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2015.

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• But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

  Amor Towles

  Civilization, Names, Ifs And

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• The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.

  Terence McKenna

  Voice, Hands, World Religions

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• If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.

  Akbar Ganji

  Men, Revolution, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Trying, Groups, Way

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.

  Mary McCarthy

  Christian, Jesus, War

  "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1957.

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• I was born with the wrong sign
  In the wrong house
  With the wrong ascendancy
  I took the wrong road
  That led to
  The wrong tendencies
  I was in the wrong place
  At the wrong time
  For the wrong reason
  And the wrong rhyme
  On the wrong day
  Of the wrong week
  Used the wrong method
  With the wrong technique
  Wrong
  Wrong.

  Martin Gore

  House, Technique, Week

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• Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

  Abraham Kuyper

  School, Exercise, Men

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.

  Charles Colson

  Moving, Differences, Culture

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• To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .

  John C. Calhoun

  America, Law, Majority

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Development, World

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.

  George Carlin

  Giving Up, Ignorance, Darkness

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• To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

  Brigham Young

  Spiritual, Children, Growing Up

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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