Hereditary Quotes

94 Hereditary quotes by 80 unique authors

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. — Ezra Stiles
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce… — Sigmund Freud
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what… — Jill Lepore
Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's… — Tony Blair
In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government… — Thomas Paine
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians. — Margaret Thatcher
Hereditary sloth instructs me. — William Shakespeare
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies. — Unknown Author
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations… — Richard Dawkins
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,… — Thomas Jefferson
I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky. — Julianna Margulies
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim,… — Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied… — John Boyd Orr
I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm… — Tony Benn
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what… — Theodor Herzl
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor. — Ozzy Osbourne
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class,… — Margaret Sanger
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary… — Herman Melville
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the… — Eugene O'Neill
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. — Paul Getty
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. — Edward Gibbon

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