Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not…

— Nathaniel Branden

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never…

— Michel de Montaigne

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

— John Dryden

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you,…

— Bill Vaughan

The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth,…

— Theodore Dwight Weld

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

— John James Ingalls

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

— John Dryden

The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to…

— Al Gore

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

— David Mamet

You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative.…

— Dick Cheney

Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be…

— William Wilberforce