No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear.… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off.… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters. — Severo Ochoa Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image