“Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMatterNationsBornLordWorstEnglandAssumingQueensQuestioningForeignersVictoria Author:Ronald Knox
“And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.” ThinkingMenShouldWritingMindLordAtheismAssumingPositive AtheismTreasurePrescribing Author:George W Truett
“O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.” MenHumansMadeLeftGivenLordSonAuthorityAbsolutesSlaveryAssumingFishesTitlesBeastAspireDominionBrethrenDonationFowl Book:Paradise lost Source: Paradise lost
“Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.” MenHouseWealthLordSonTypeThousandIllusionTwentiesAssumingConvictionMeritDecentThievesFoundersGreedySnakesBoastPirateGoatsAntiquityDescentFilthyLeopardsSwineJackalsHouse Of Lords Author:Lewis Carroll