Hereditary Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Download Open image “Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.” — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hereditary Nobility Should
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
'We only have two things to worry about...... One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!' Open… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established… — 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 a major… — 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 a woe.… — 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. I recognize… — 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 be a… — 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. I mean… — 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 itself with… — 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 the prince… — 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 so brief,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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