Their Own Merit Quotes
- An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their… — Catharine MacKinnon
- People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges… — Immanuel Kant