#injunction

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable." ↗

— Petra Kelly

#century #faced #faces #generation #impossible

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#injunction #law #local #never #repeating

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #divorce #every #frequently #fundamentalists

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#convinced #go #i #injunction #may

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#before #better #comprehend #considered #duty

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' ↗

— George McGovern

#empathy #injunction #love #neighbor #old

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... ↗

— China Miéville

#injunctions #regret #cowardice

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#injunction #love #means #neighbors #our