#sovereign

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory. ↗

— Criss Jami

#failure #falling #glory-of-god #god #healing

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#before #europe #everyday #everyday lives #govern

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#countries #meaning #nominal #nominally #number

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#last #long #longer #obligation #power

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#governed #maintained #manifestly #order #sovereign

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#country #prove #sovereign #states #treating

Egypt is a sovereign nation. ↗

— William Hague

#nation #sovereign #sovereign nation

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

#enough #eroticism #individual #justification #me

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#am #believe #determined #die #direction