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«Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.»
«The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.»
Author: Howard Nemerov
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condemned, condemned to death, escape from, examine, henceforth, in writing, subject to, way out
«What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.»
«Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und»
«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 attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach?ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem?bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub?ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Inequality,
Privilege
| Keywords:
act as, attached, by birth, coercion, coercive, commonwealth, commonwealths, considerable, counter, descendants, disposed, entitled, forcibly, good fortune, handed-down, hand down, hereditary, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, inequalities, levels, measures, occupies, ordinate, pertain, pertaining, pertains, practise, privileges, qualified, raising, rank, ruler, sub, subjects, subject to, the Commonwealth
«Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
branch, executive branch, Executive power, exercises, questioning, separation, subject to
