There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Society being codified by man decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

But on second thought after I decreed the state of emergency I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.