Strain Due Applied

Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:

“She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Women’s rights was an excellent doctrine to preach, but for practice could not stand the strain of such temptation.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:6.

“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
—Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)