One only wonders at the frightfulness of the crime which makes men kill each other without a purpose of their own, but at the dictate of powers far removed from their own knowledge and interests in life.
This love to God is the highest good which we can seek according to the dictate of reason; is common to all men; and we desire that all may enjoy it.
For it is reason's own law, to choose the less of two evils; and accordingly we may conclude that no one is acting against the dictate of his own reason, so far as he does what by the law of the commonwealth is to be done.
For a commonwealth is most independent when it acts according to the dictate of reason; so far, then, as it acts against reason, it fails itself, or does wrong.
It is the business of the Church to inculcate "obedience" in the masses; not to dictate to philosophers what is the truth.
But, it may be objected, is it not contrary to the dictate of reason to subject oneself wholly to the judgment of another, and, consequently, is not the civil state repugnant to reason?
But since reason teaches nothing contrary to Nature, sound reason cannot therefore dictate that every one should remain independent, so long as men are liable to passions, that is, reason pronounces against such independence.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers stood at the zenith of its power about this time and was able in 1889, by the mere threat of a strike, to dictate terms to the Carnegie Steel Company.
The Church is controlled by an absolutely irresponsible self-perpetuating body of five men, who alone dictate its policy.
Business men control our politics and dictate our laws; business men own our newspapers and direct their policy; business men sit on our school boards, and endow and manage our universities.
We should laugh at it, if it attempted to dictate to us; or to account for all our motives.
To say this is not to dictate what a Divine revelation must be, but only to shew what Christianity asserts of itself.
Each one was free to dictate to his secretary his recollections of what had gone on, but as these précis were given from memory they necessarily differed one from the other on various important points.
They must likewise allow their more powerful allies to dictate to them their legislation on matters of transit and foreign commerce.
Has the Conference or the League the right or power to dictate to them the persons or the people with whom alone they may have dealings?
Bratiano should have refused to accept in advance the conditions which the Four or the Five may dictate in favor of ethnic and religious minorities.
They were determined to safeguard their country and its neighbors from a repetition of the danger and of the sacrifices it entailed; in other words, to dictate the terms of a new armistice.
I cannot presume to dictate to you about what you ought to do.
The latter members, the majority of whom do not know the country in its inside phases, clearly can never dictate laws which are adapted to the circumstances and conditions of the people.
Acting on the dictate of what she fancies to be her conscience, she is quite capable of going to any extreme, and I have the strongest doubt that she is one to be moved by affection or deterred by fear.
His first care was todictate a telegraphic despatch to a well-known lawyer, whose skill in criminal cases had made him a wide celebrity.
The lady made her own election; but she wras one of those who acted on a comprehensive plan, and would not admit her private inclination to dictate her decision.
To wish that time may explain this mystery in a different manner, and so as to permit our retention of this money, is, perhaps, the dictate of selfishness.
To kill him outright was the dictateof compassion and of duty.
Instead of regarding the act which I had meditated as the dictate of compassion or of justice, it only added to the sum of my ingratitude, and gave wings to the whirlwind that was sent to bear me to perdition.
If forbearance be the dictate of wisdom, cannot it be so deeply engraven on my mind as to defy all temptation, and be proof against the most abrupt surprise?
Colonel Proctor then said, "Sir, do you mean to dictatefor me?
You ought to dictate reviews like that, Mr. Reifferscheid," Paula could not help saying, though she knew he would be disconcerted.
But he did not wish that the terms of peace he proposed to dictate should be subjected to the criticism and revision of the European Powers, nor to undergo the fate which fell on Russia twelve years later.
At this point a correspondence arose between them and the commissioners of Georgia, who assumed to dictate the terms on which the treaty was to be founded.
He had discharged citizens and their slaves from public employment, and the war was carried on without permitting the people, or politicians of Georgia or Florida, to interfere or dictate the manner of its prosecution.
Regarding the war as commenced and prosecuted for their own benefit, they felt authorized in some degree to dictate the manner in which it should be conducted.
Although his sufferings were very great, he was able, within three days of the accident, todictate a long letter to Captain Claxton on the state of the ship and engines.
Why is it that Mr. Huneker could never either dictate or learn to run a typewriter?
The editor of the Star commenting upon this law said: Slaves are real estate in this and other states, and wisdom woulddictate great care among the branches of The Church of Christ on this subject.
But discords soon begin to divide the reformers: hatred of clerical privilege and the desire to fill the empty coffers of the State dictate the first acts of spoliation.
Greek mythology provided allusions for the adornment of his proclamations, the Koran would dictate his behaviour towards the Moslems, and the Bible was to be his guide-book concerning the Druses and Armenians.
Napoleon's habit dramatically to dictate his plans so far in advance.
Yea, and the very magnates whose power rests on force and fraud are precisely those who insidiously dictate what men shall be appointed to these omniscient courts, before whose edicts all men are expected to bow in speechless reverence.
But, what I do feel strongly is this--you have no right to dictate to Guy in this matter.
Why did you not dictate your notes to Rossett and let him take them down?
It was antecedently probable, therefore, that a certain general principle would dictate the constitution of the three parts of the order of battle, the centre and two flanks, into which every military line divides.
You’ve got the damned impudence to stand there and dictate to me?
