Sovereign Quotes - Page 6

• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

  Hamid Karzai

  Order, Years, Cost

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• I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Nice, Land, Insanity

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

  Jerry Bridges

  Ordinary, Scripture, Daily Life

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God Study Guide: Even When Life Hurts”, p.34, Tyndale House

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• The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

  John Piper

  Evil, Suffering, World

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• ... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.

  Ki Longfellow

  Stars, Important, Cosmos

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

  Judith Butler

  Law, Names, Population

  Judith Butler (2006). “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence”, p.55, Verso

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• Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Summer, Clouds, Eggs

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.110, Egmont UK

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• The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Betrayal, Eye, Voice

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.88, Macmillan

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• To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Sovereignty

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.21, Baker Books

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• It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, And Love, Thrive

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

  David Mitchell

  Country, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.340, Vintage

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• What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Art, War

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.

  Catherine Wilson

  Hurt, People, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

  Adolf Hitler

  Long, Community, States

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Like Love, Want

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

  John Piper

  Christian, Believe, Artist

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• Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Pride, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

  Carl Schmitt

  Exception

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Lying, Deceit, Would Be

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

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• Having a secure border is a sovereign right and mutually beneficial.

  Donald Trump

  Borders, Beneficial, Secure

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign over accidents and birth anomalies, or does the devil set the world's agenda? How do I counsel people who are despairing of their condition?

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Heart, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.52, Youcanprint

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