Usurped Quotes

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name. - Lord Melbourne

We understand the pain and the hurt of the Muslim community but I am urging Muslims around the world to understand the repercussions of their actions, that their pain has been usurped by Islamic extremists. - Tarek Fatah

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. - Marc Maron

Over the last five years, political power has been usurped from state and local governments in a way not seen before in American history. That may seem like just a concern for academic types, but it should worry every American, as the power grab increasingly creeps into almost every aspect of citizens' economic life. - David Sirota

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. - William Godwin

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. - Hassan Nasrallah

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. - Mary Wollstonecraft

I am concerned about the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority. - Arlen Specter