Quotes having the keyword Prerogative
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
by Peter L. Berger (Sociologist, Austrian , born in 1929) keywords: better, comparing, even, interested, much, only, others, own, prerogative, society, understand , which
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
by Coco Chanel (Designer, French , born in 1883) keywords: adolescence, already, elegance, escaped, future, just, possession, prerogative, taken, their , those
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
by John Dryden (Poet, English , born in 1631) keywords: first, last, law , prerogative
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
by Mohandas Gandhi (Leader, Indian , born in 1970) keywords: brave, coward, exhibiting, incapable, love , prerogative
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
by John James Ingalls (Politician, American , born in 1833) keywords: grave, neither, nor, prerogative, rank, republic , station
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
by Shirley Manson (Musician, Scottish , born in 1966) keywords: am, change, contradictory, mess, mood, prerogative, see , weather
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
by Albert Pike (Lawyer, American , born in 1809) keywords: accompany, comparison, discovery, divine, doubt, doubting, essential, faculty, improvement, itself, judgment, man, must, onward, preliminary, prerogative, progress, questioning, reason, stages, those, useless, which, without , would
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
by John Buchanan Robinson (Politician, American , born in 1846) keywords: accounting, army, crime, criminal, disloyalty, felt, guilty, highest, himself, his, king, prerogative, propriety, questioned, reckoned, return, royal, taking, taxes , without
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
by Tom Stoppard (Dramatist, English , born in 1937) keywords: able, ages, been, eunuch, house, illusion, lords, never, power, prerogative, responsibility, subscribe, throughout, which , without