Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like… — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't… — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few!… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
![“[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is his unquestionable prerogative. But here on my anthill, it's mine to say: oh, do piss off, you ineffable snobs.” quote by David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d7/david-bennun-25818_bob_bob-dylan-may-for-whatever-reasons-of-hi_3038552.jpg)
