When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as pa...rents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine rig...ht of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... "a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge [Senator Stephen] Do...uglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles--right and wrong--throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;... The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which know...ledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if his appetite was good? Or, if it were, if also his digestion?... Methinks at meals some odd thoughts might intrude, And conscience ask a curious sort of question, About the right divine how far we should Sell flesh and blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and wil...l stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »