Originate

Famous quotes containing the word originate:

“Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 14:36.

“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)

“The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)