Dominion Quotes:

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

- A. E. Housman

topic: Steel, Stones, Dominion

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

- Aaron Klug

source: "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.

topic: Dominion, Goes On, Physics, Cambridge, Colony

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

- Alexander the Great

source: "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

topic: Knowledge, Dominion, Excellent

The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.

- Amelia Bloomer

source: Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer”

topic: Dominion, Way, Good Times

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

topic: Sad, World, Dominion, Perversity, Suspended

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Vision, Dominion, Solitary Man

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

- Catherine Booth

source: Catherine Booth (1891). “Popular Christianity, a series of lectures”

topic: Dominion, Sin, Stranger

Death hath no dominion.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Dominion

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

- E. L. Doctorow

topic: People, Humanity, Dominion

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Moving, Joy, Dominion, Wheel Of Time

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

- Gary North

topic: Dominion, Strategy, Ten Commandments

The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.

- Gouverneur Morris

topic: Government, Dominion, Spheres, Central Banking, Enslavement

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

- Guru Nanak

topic: Kings, Dominion, Ants

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

- Helen Keller

topic: God, Men, Dominion

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

- Hugh Nibley

topic: Men, Dominion

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

- Jakob Bohme

topic: Self, Shepherds, Dominion

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

- James Buchan

topic: Military, Technology, Dominion

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

- James Otis

topic: Majesty, Dominion, Revolution, Taxation Without Representation

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: Love, May, Dominion

We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Son, Grace, Dominion, Sanctification

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

- John Arbuthnot

source: John Arbuthnot (1751). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”

topic: Giving, Unjust, Dominion

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion.  It makes one a god.

- John G. Lake

topic: Dominion, Spirit, Ghost

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

- John L. Dagg

topic: Mind, Desire, Dominion

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

- John Milton

topic: Titles, Thrones, Dominion

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

- John Owen

topic: Devil, Dominion, Reign

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Bullying, Over You, Dominion, Getting Over You

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Dominion

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

- Lysander Spooner

topic: Two, Dominion, Identical, Implying

And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

topic: Beautiful, Soul, Dominion

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

- Max Stirner

topic: Men, Political, Dominion

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

- Molefi Kete Asante

topic: Two, Mind, Dominion

Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.

- Neville Goddard

topic: Positivity, Thinking, Dominion

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

- Ovid

topic: Dominion, Love Conquers All, Conquer

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

- Pope Pius IV

topic: Sea, Dominion, Charm

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

- R. Murray Schafer

source: R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Lying, Orchestra, Dominion

It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.

- Thomas Gage

topic: Dominion, Sun, May

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Giving, Wicked, Dominion, Wicked Things

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

- William of Malmesbury

source: "The English and the Normans". Book by Hugh Thomas, p. 56, 2003.

topic: Bishops, Dominion, Today, Newcomers

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

- Andrew Linzey

topic: Mean, Animal, Dominion

Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.

- Ed Silvoso

source: Ed Silvoso (1995). “That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism”, p.195, Gospel Light Publications

topic: Earth, Dominion, Satan, Deputies

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

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

topic: Civilization, Dominion, Easy

Our neighbors the Hollanders may be our example in this case; who whilst we have been driving a private trade from port to port, of which we are likely now to be deprived, have conquered so much land in the East and West Indies that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the sun never sets upon their dominions.

- Thomas Gage

source: "Travels in the New World".

topic: May, Dominion, Sun

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Important, Dominion, Sides, Most Important Person

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

topic: Understanding, Culture, Dominion

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Time, Love Is, Dominion

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

source: Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

topic: Home, Dominion, Vain

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

topic: Dominion, Said, Plague

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.21, NavPress

topic: Dominion, Sin, Christ

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

- Friedrich Schiller

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

topic: Christian, World, Dominion

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

topic: Goal, Dominion, Rooms, Mental Power

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

- Tacitus

topic: Flames, Lust, Dominion

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

- Tacitus

topic: Passion, Dominion

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.151, Oxford University Press

topic: Mean, Independence, Dominion

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wish, Connections, Dominion

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna Swanwick, Henry George Bohn (1860). “Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont”, p.273

topic: Joy, World, Dominion

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

- John Calvin

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

topic: Heart, Dominion, Riches

And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

- Thomas Hobbes

source: Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.566, Broadview Press

topic: Men, Empires, Dominion, Deceased

How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: People, Body, Dominion, Cuttlefish, Spawn

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

topic: Acquisition, Noble, Dominion, True Riches

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4295, Delphi Classics

topic: Power, Dominion, Imposition

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

- Junot Diaz

source: Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.144, Faber & Faber

topic: Prayer, Dominion, Moments

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

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

topic: Secret, Dominion, Limits

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

- Dylan Thomas

source: Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

topic: Down And, Dominion, Sun

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Passion, Dominion, Avarice

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

source: Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

topic: Greatness, Long, Dominion

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

- Edward Gibbon

source: Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

topic: Animal, Dominion, Toil

God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

- Brigham Young

source: Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

topic: Progress, World, Dominion, Power Of Knowledge

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Dominion, Ends, Conscience

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.113

topic: Mean, Parent, Dominion, Intoxication

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

- Emma Goldman

source: 'Anarchism and Other Essays' (1910) p. 68

topic: Mind, Anarchy, Dominion, Shackles

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

- James Anthony Froude

source: James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Ignorance, Dominion, Absurdity

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

topic: Unjust, Dominion, Eternal

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

- Ernest Holmes

topic: Truth, Dominion, Host

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

- Euripides

topic: Heaven, Events, Dominion

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

- Simone Weil

source: Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

topic: Life, Dominion, Force

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

- Ovid

source: Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.187, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

topic: Love, Kings, Dominion, Partition