Citations:gods may do what cattle may not

English citations of gods may do what cattle may not

See also: Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

Phrase: what is permitted to one important person or group is not permitted to everyone edit

2010 July 5, daniloff, “Re: national quinine”, in soc.culture.baltics‎^[1] (Usenet):
[> Funny how you vehemently object when (Belo)Russians post something about (Belo)Russia to SCB, but you have no problem posting to SCB about Belorussia yourself. […] ]
Gods may do what cattle may not :-)
2014 December 11, Gideon Levy, “Israel and Mideast Armament: Gods May Do What Cattle May Not”, in Haaretz‎^[2]:
We are a country without limits, not even the sky. Could one imagine a Syrian bombing of an arms shipment being unloaded at Haifa Port? It would be immediate grounds for war, of course.
2015 April 9, Gideon Levy, “When Jews Throw Stones, Will Israeli Police Open Fire?”, in Haaretz‎^[3]:
The brain refuses to believe what the eyes read: Israel will push Congress to pass a bill, Israel will lobby the Congress. It’s enough to imagine the reverse headline – America will push the Knesset to pass a bill – and the scandal it would ignite. But gods may do what cattle may not, and Israel may certainly do what America may not.

2008 December 15, John W. Casperson, A Chalice of Miracles, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 251:
... Gods may do what cattle may not . " We must be able to seek our own way to spiritual truth unimpeded by self - anointed , self - policing self - promoting salesmen . It should not be said that beauty does not exist in the printed […]
2020 April 22, John Steiner, Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis, Routledge, →ISBN:
... Gods may do what cattle may not”. It indicates the existence of a double standard which emphasises the high status of Jove and the lowly one of the child. What we recognise today is that to successfully engage in a creative development […]
2013 June 14, Kristina Carlson, Mr Darwin's Gardener, Peirene Press, →ISBN:
... gods may do what cattle may not, a highly pertinent saying from the ancients. The vicar was not talking about Thomas Davies, but the saying is applicable to him. He thinks he can issue statements as if he were Mr Darwin, although he is […]
2020 December 10, Stephan Malinowski, Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 30:
... gods may do what cattle may not ) seems to have been the tacit order of the day . Hunting also encapsulated the aristocracy's sense of hierarchy and dominion over the natural world . The vanquished quarry - lined up , stuffed , and hung […]
2014 March 25, Florian Schui, Austerity: The Great Failure, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
... Gods may do what cattle may not') that was also used as a proverb in medi- eval times. As with spending, Aristotle also made an important distinc- tion between different ways ofmaking money. Here, too, it was crucial for him that […]