Top 100 Quotes About Dominion
#1. Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals ...
Edward Gibbon
#2. Fear holds dominion over mortality
Only because, seeing in land and sky
So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
Men think Divinities are working there.
Lucretius
#3. 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
#4. 2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.
John C. Maxwell
#5. 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
#6. You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#7. We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.
James Madison
#8. Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
William Lyon Phelps
#9. Since around 200 BC, most humans have lived in empires. It seems likely that in the future, too, most humans will live in one. But this time the empire will be truly global. The imperial vision of dominion over the entire world could be imminent.
Yuval Noah Harari
#10. 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
#11. I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
James F. Byrnes
#12. So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Jules Verne
#13. although the dominion of darkness is very real, its days are numbered because the Alpha and the Omega - the "Guardian King" - is real too, and he is victorious.
Craig Parshall
#14. Science never abandoned me the way religion had that night.
Forsaking the Holy Father was considered a sin, and I did it repeatedly. Each time my blade met with flesh, I sinned more and welcomed it.
God no longer held dominion over my soul.
Kerri Maniscalco
#15. Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon.
Clive Barker
#16. 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
#17. We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
Charles Spurgeon
#18. Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.
Neville Goddard
#19. When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley
#20. You'll feel like Jesu Himself in the End Times, when He will descend on Rome with Augustus and Vespasian on His left and right hands, to establish the final dominion of the Caesars across the stars.
Stephen Baxter
#21. The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
Tacitus
#22. Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
Ovid
#23. Sickness and sin still stalk our planet. But here is the difference: neither sin nor sickness will have dominion over God's people.
Max Lucado
#24. Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#25. Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?
Polybius
#26. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe
#27. To submit to a dominion is to pursue relationship with the King of that domain
Sunday Adelaja
#28. The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#29. Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
C.S. Lewis
#30. Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.
Myles Munroe
#31. More and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
Virginia Woolf
#32. Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
Samuel Johnson
#33. 13Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of ggreat transgression.
Anonymous
#34. Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.
H.G.Wells
#35. We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
George William Russell
#36. Without St. George, that balance would tip. Without the Order, there would be nothing to stop Talon and the Elder Wyrm from achieving what they wanted from the start: complete and utter dominion.
Julie Kagawa
#37. A thousand years of dominion went ringing across the Thames like a trumpet blast. Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Norman ancestry combined in a chord that had deafened and conquered nations. It expected the moon to bow the knee. If not, so much the worse for the moon.
Ariana Franklin
#38. We are very much in need now of Christian pioneers. This means a people who are zealous to grow and to exercise dominion in Christ.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#39. In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.
Isaac Newton
#40. Genesis account which grants man "dominion" over the earth (cf. Gen 1:28),
Pope Francis
#41. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.
Matt Dillon
#42. But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.
Marcus J. Borg
#43. The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
#44. Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).
Adolf Hitler
#45. 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
#46. Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#47. To keep under, that is to submit. The Soul can submit to God at the time when it can send itself under the power and authority and dominion that God has over it.
Barbara Hughes
#48. For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.
Myles Munroe
#49. 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
#50. Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly
Brigham Young
#51. The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.
John G. Lake
#52. I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander The Great
#53. Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him.
Simone Weil
#54. With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.
Laurence Gonzales
#55. Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying - the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity' - shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we have lived it.
Ronald Dworkin
#56. The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.
Edward Gibbon
#57. In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
#58. 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
#59. Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Miguel De Cervantes
#60. In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.
Michael Sandel
#61. The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#62. Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
Charles Dickens
#63. 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.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#64. 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
#65. Cultures of domination attack self-esteem, replacing it with a notion that we derive our sense of being from dominion over another. Patriarchal masculinity teaches men that their sense of self and identity, their reason for being, resides in their capacity to dominate others.
Bell Hooks
#66. Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#67. Through dominion in the fourth dimension - the realm of faith - you can give order to your circumstances and situations, give beauty to the ugly and chaotic, and healing to the hurt and suffering.
David Yongghi Cho
#68. The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
Ellen Key
#69. Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken.
Charles Spurgeon
#70. In order to compete with God for the dominion of the world, Satan, whom Christ called "the prince of this world," was forced to go into the "religion" business.
Billy Graham
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.
Thomas Love Peacock
#74. Man by the Fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#75. They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not
meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#76. Mankind is a plague. Look at you. You rape and pillage, you suck the Earth dry and kill all your kindred. What species has prospered under man's dominion?
Sarwat Chadda
#77. 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
#78. I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
Robert Burns
#79. Mankind's original destiny was to extend God's glorious dominion of love throughout the earth
Sunday Adelaja
#80. Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan
#81. 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
#82. I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.
Friedrich Schiller
#83. I didn't want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me.
Amy Harmon
#84. I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.
Jane Austen
#85. When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Myles Munroe
#86. Appreciation and enjoyment of the creatures are the hallmark of God's dominion and therefore the standard by which our own attempt to exercise dominion must be judged.
Ellen F. Davis
#87. But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
Leonard Ravenhill
#88. The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Isaac Newton
#89. Tomorrow I'm going to mow the lawn and prune the trees, and after that I'll cook some stew and casseroles to put in the freezer. We'll be glad of them when we're busy gaining dominion over the world, and can't find time to cook.
Alex Gabriel
#91. Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
Ovid
#92. 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
#93. Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
Of the great sea of human right and wrong,
When once from our possession they must pass;
But love, though misdirected, is among
The things which are immortal, and surpass
All that frail stuff which will be - or which was.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Anonymous
#97. One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
Mary Shelley
#98. Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Dylan Thomas
#100. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.
Amelia Earhart
