Hereditary Quote by William Godwin

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“All hat, no cattle...doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone…

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

[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

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it…

— Ari Aster