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But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.
clarence thomas— Clarence Thomas in: Free Minds & Free Markets: Twenty-five Years of Reason, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1 January 1993, p.144
I was surprised to see that there was indeed religiously sanctioned violence in it , as well as some others things which I found disturbing. But it was all intriguing, because I was entranced by the shorter, poetic chapters. I thought it very striking that this beauty could co-exist with clear mandates for warfare and violence against unbelievers .
robert spencer— "Jihad will destroy us if we don't act now." at "catholicherald.co.uk, features opinion, 2007
From China to America to Mecca, forget mandates from Heaven, Jesus, or God. They do not exist. An a-priori mandate, however, does exist from metaphorical Zons here on Earth and across the cosmos.
frank r. wallace— Pax Neo-Tech.
Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate; Naked, alone, undefended, I knock at the Uttermost Gate. Behind is life and its longing, Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow, Beyond is the Infinite Morning Of a day without a tomorrow.
— Wenonah Stevens Abbott, A Soul's Soliloquy.
Jesus' message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God's creatures. He'd be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.
— Bruce Friedrich, in an interview by Hank Pellissier, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? (February 2004)
