Quotes about Violating
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
- John 7:19
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.
- John Quincy Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
- John Adams
Power," he wrote, "always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws. Our passions, ambitions, avarice, love and resentment, etc., possess so much metaphysical subtlety and so much overpowering eloquence that they insinuate themselves into the understanding and the conscience and convert both to their party.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Reeducation comes from voices that dissent from the unexamined comfort zone, from those who abrasively shock our comfort zones with voices from outside that violate the consensus that has been silently accepted.
- Walter Brueggemann
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
- John Adams