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«Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
boot, boots, boot maker, defer, deferred, deferring, defers, maker, perish, reject, The Authority, the matter
«If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
at liberty, enact, enacted, enacting, Judges, legislature, positively, reject, subversive
«Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin
(Comedian, Composer, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Rejection
| Keywords:
actors, reject, rejection, rejections
«Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
associated, Brain may, formerly, persist, reject, sentiments
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Authority,
Constitution,
Justice,
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
injunction, injunctions, instruction, posterity, recklessly, reject, religious instruction, Rules of, sudden, The Rules, trifle, violate
«Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.»
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.»
«Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
contrary, exercise, reject, safest, summarily
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