William Graham Sumner Quotes
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
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Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.
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How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
