Dominion Quotes - Page 11

• Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Riches, Authority

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.389, Ravenio Books

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• It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

  Michel Foucault

  Secret, Limits, Moments

  Michel Foucault (1978). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!

  Keith Miller

  Years, Expansion, East

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• I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

  Charles Colson

  Understanding, Culture, Righteousness

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• The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Animal, Opportunity, Atmosphere

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• Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Order, Mind

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• Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Trying, Lucky, Warning

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• And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Darkness, Decay, Red

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.251, Wordsworth Editions

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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 course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

  Milan Kundera

  Horse, Men, Order

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1884.

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• A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination."

  Leonard Sweet

  Real, Loss, Years

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• Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

  Martha Rosler

  Civilization, Easy, Form

  Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.270, MIT Press

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• Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Acquisition, Noble, Riches

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• He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.

  Isaac Newton

  God, Science, Perfect

  "The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".

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• It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Yesterday, Squares

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

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• I am called
  The richest monarch in the Christian world;
  The sun in my dominion never sets.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Christian, World, Sun

  "Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. vi, 1787.

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• God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Equality, Rights, Inheritance

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• The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Raw Materials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Passion, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

  Aristotle

  Government, Cities, Evil

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

  Marc Bekoff

  Pain, Powerful, Moving

  Marc Bekoff (2013). “Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation”, p.310, New World Library

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• The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wind, Weather, Tyrants

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1330, e-artnow

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• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Fighting, Rights

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

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• 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.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Freedom, Real, Exercise

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt, translated by Joseph Coulthard. Chapter 1, 1854.

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