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«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Society
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codified, codifying, decreeing, decrees, destroying, do away with, inferior, inferiority, superiority
«And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.»
«Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.»
«God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of the Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen?»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
decreeing, Englishmen, first period, re-formation, reformation, reforming, The Reformation
«Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
behavior, decreeing, decrees, heartless, judicial, legislate, legislated, legislates, may not, morality, regulated, regulates, regulating, restrain, restraining, restrains
«The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
blasphemies, blasphemy, decreed, decreeing, disbelief, Laws, the book, The Word, voted, Word of God
«The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
decreeing, decrees, fatal, free will, incompatible, in the least, provided, providence, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts
«Fate, show your force; ourselves we do not owe.What is decreed must be -- and be this so!»
«Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quickest decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals ere we can effect them»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
decreeing, decrees, inaudible, instant, noiseless, quickest, steals, The Forward
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