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For that is the people's verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people's decrees. — Seneca.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge

Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do. — Sherwin B. Nuland

The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. — Francois Furet

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn. — Letitia Baldrige

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God. — John Tillotson

A dictator decrees," she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize. — Denise Kiernan

The silent worker is imagination which decrees reality out of chaos. — Helen Keller

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks. — Judith Martin

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees. — R.C. Sproul

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. — Phillips Brooks

Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate. — Kate Chopin

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present. — Phillips Brooks

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be — Mark Twain

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. — Simone De Beauvoir

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. — Felix Frankfurter

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Holy Scripture could never lie or err ... its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. — Galileo Galilei

Release the son from the crimes of the father. Civilized law decrees it. We — Ray Buckley

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees. — Edmund Burke

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. — Matthew Henry

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. — Ludwig Von Mises

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King Jr.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People — John Calvin

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio. — Jim Beaver

1Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. — Anonymous

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees. — Jessica Mitford

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. — Virgil

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees. — Charles Spurgeon

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton

The departments are shit; decrees are shit. — Vladimir Lenin

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. — Robert Brault