Content Mandates

Famous quotes containing the words content and/or mandates:

“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

“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)