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«There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed»
«Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law»
Author: Solon | About: Society | Keywords: magistrates
«Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.»
«The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.»
«And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: keeper, magistrates
«Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, / To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.»
«And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: magistrates
«And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ezra, magistrates
«Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t»