#decree

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#confined #decree #doctrine #left #lust

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#anything #comply #decree #effort #except

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#god #i #keep #laws #man

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. ↗

— Karel Capek

#contrary #decrees #hear #indifference #necessary

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#decrees #may #must #order #paralyze

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#actual #any #aristocracy #cannot #decree

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#diet #dissolved #government #reich

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#after #anger #another #another way #because

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#beyond #certain #certain age #decreed #jacket

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#apart #believe #certain #decree #determination