Quotes about Domination
This definition naturally establishes the fact that any domination of another human spirit is violation of God's natural law.
— Myles Munroe
Did you ever notice that Jesus himself was not really that upset at the bad behavior that most of us call sin? Instead, he directed his critical attention toward people who did not think they were sinners, who could not see their own shadows or dark sides, or acknowledge their complicity in the world's domination systems.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.
— Derek Prince
There is no such thing as liberty,' she heard the quiet, deep, dangerous voice of Don Ramón repeating. 'There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
— DH Lawrence
Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower.
— John Maxwell
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
— Euripides
In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.
— Richard Foster
Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under the domination of sin than to confer holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.
— Jonathan Edwards
Nevertheless power and domination are not given even to such men save by the providence of the most high God, when He judges that the state of human affairs is worthy of such lords.
— St. Augustine