“If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.” IfsHappinessKingsAmbitionFilledDetermineNobleAccomplishmentTerritorySmallestToo ShortDominionLife Too Short Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).” IfsKindMayLongUsePoliticalTermClearTeachingModernCenturyKingsAll ThingsCriticismClaimsRelationIsraelExtremesDialogueIdeologyRelateProphetQuestioningBiblicalContestsAnarchismAnarchistDominionNineteenth CenturyPolitical Power Author:Jacques Ellul
“Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.” PeopleMenLibertyKingsTravelEvery ManDominionCountrymenTastingNoblemen Book:Concord Days Source: Concord Days
“Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.” ShouldKingsBraveSoldierPossessionSpainDominionBrag Author:John Smith
“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.” WealthKingsFilledProsperityGod LoveCompareAntsEmperorDominionGod's Love Author:Guru Nanak