Usurp Quotes

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive. — Ivor A. Richards

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room ... — Marsilio Ficino

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." — Charles Simmons

For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, — Jack London

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive. — Max Anders

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE. — Shawn Michaels

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong

I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible? — Sue Monk Kidd

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights. — Emile Zola

Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them. — Sebastian Barry

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. — Mahatma Gandhi

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. — Anonymous

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine. — Gina Barreca

Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one. — Henry Makow

There is a Cult of Western evangelists and self-righteous crusaders who are determined to dislodge non-Western nations and usurp their governments. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

The drunken instinct will usurp all others, unless the drunken instinct has itself been usurped, by its own excesses. — Robert Black

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services. — Geoff Mulgan

No one can usurp the heights ...
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest. — John Keats