Decreed

Famous quotes containing the word decreed:

“I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“... not only do ... women suffer ... indignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

“I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)