Oath of Office/religious Bodies

Famous quotes containing the words oath, office, religious and/or bodies:

    “I’ll have my bond, speak not against my bond,
    I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were the occasion for both their pain and their power.”
    —Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)