Subjects Quotes
2964 quotes by 2040 authors
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;…
— Mary Astell
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's…
— Chinua Achebe
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
— Margaret Atwood
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance…
— Teresa of Avila
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any…
— Charles Babbage
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving…
— Charles Babbage
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If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are…
— Michael D. Barnes
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this…
— Mario Batali
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
— Joseph Addison
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
— Berenice Abbott
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
— Halle Berry
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to…
— Juliette Binoche
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I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so…
— Lewis Black
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