Content Mandates

Famous quotes containing the words content and/or mandates:

    “Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Alas! when Virtue sits high aloft on a frigate’s poop, when Virtue is crowned in the cabin of a Commodore, when Virtue rules by compulsion, and domineers over Vice as a slave, then Virtue, though her mandates be outwardly observed, bears little interior sway.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)