Reign Quotes

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

A short reign does not spare the masses.

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

You can't reign in obscurity you can't shine in your comfort zone.

There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.

Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always!

No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone

Do not let anybody reign with you, until they suffer with you.

If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe

When one star sets, a million spring forth.

He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention

The more God will reign in you the more you will reign over the earth to establish the kingdom of God

Necessity will reign if the domain of kingdom love is realized

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.