Ascendancy Quotes
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""With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy."
john kennedy toole— Ch. 2, opening line
Has he not accurately anticipated both the fact and the motive of the present attitude of the State of New York? Is it not commercial gain and mercantile ascendancy which prompt their warlike zeal for the Federal Government? At all events, it is a little unreasonable in the New York politicians to require us to treat the South as rebels, in the fact of the opinion of our highest European authority as to the right of secession.
Richard Cobden— Letter to W. Hargreaves (22 June, 1861), after reading de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 850.
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another, for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Elbridge Gerry (January 26, 1799); in: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition (ME) (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors), 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, Volume 10, page 78.
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade".
herbert schiller— Chapter Two, Visions Of Global Electronic Mastery, p. 80
This ascendancy of economic theory has not made the world a better place. Instead, it has made an already troubled society worse: more unequal, more unstable, and less 'efficient'.
— Preface, p. xiv (Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001))
Shortly after pithecanthropus erectus gained the ascendancy, he turned his attention to the higher-order abstractions.
richard arnold epstein— Chapter One, Kubeiagenesis, p. 1
