Sovereignty Quotes - Page 9

• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Government, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

  John Owen

  Way, Revelations, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The Works ...”, p.158

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• The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is. We need to wake up in order to rediscover our human sovereignty. We are riding a horse that is running out of control. The way of salvation is a new culture in which human beings are encouraged to rediscover their deepest nature.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Horse, Order

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• When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, People, Justice

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.107, Penguin

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• If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

  Robert Mugabe

  Choices, Membership, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

  Nhat Hanh

  Television, Humans, Seeds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Love, Fall, Mean

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• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

  James Monroe

  Exercise, People, Ignorant

  James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Moral, Enough, Pleasure

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• Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Taken, Given

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• The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Moon, Use

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.487, Best Books on

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• In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Cheating, Men, Evil

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• For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Death, Men

  Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (1971). “Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann”

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• We will continue to work together to implement the Minsk accord and doing all we can to return to peace with the respect of the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.

  Matteo Renzi

  Peace, Integrity, Working Together

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• Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

  John Bingham

  Parent, United States, Citizens

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• We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

  John Piper

  People, Lovers, Lost

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• But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Government, United States

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.140

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• If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

  Daniel Webster

  Rights, Unions, May

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• We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.

  John H. Walton

  Strong, Book, Character

  John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.134, InterVarsity Press

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• Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

  George Soros

  Investing, World, Economy

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• The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ideas, Government, Important

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doctrine, Offensive, Human Nature

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.74, Editora Dracaena

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• The States are nations.

  Daniel Webster

  Independence, Republic, States

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• If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

  Daniel Webster

  Rights, Government, Law

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• Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

  Justin Welby

  Foundation, Fallibility, Humans

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