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«People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.»
Author: Friedrich Engels
| Keywords:
democratic state, extraordinarily, hereditary, hereditary monarchy, in reality, monarchies, monarchy, oppression, quite an, republic, step forward, swear, The monarchy
«Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Children,
Poetry
| Keywords:
hereditary, heroic, lends, opens
«Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
doctrine, especially, Everything is Beautiful, fortunately, hereditary, including, optimism, ugly
«There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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cause of death, common cause, competing, devout, equivalent, gene, genes, groups, hereditary, in common, membership, selective, subordinate, subordinates, subordinating, The Next Generation, transmitted
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, appointed, appointing, appoints, definition, elective, executive, Executive power, hereditary, judiciary, justly, legislative, Legislative power, powers, pronounced, pronouncing, self-appointed
«Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
corruption, depravities, depravity, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, hereditary, obnoxious, original sin, producing, rendering, scripture, wrath
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, accustom, accustomed, aped, apes, aping, bad faith, Blind Faith, contagious, disorder, disproof, doctrine, Everything is Beautiful, expound, expounded, expounding, expounds, fortunately, grin, hereditary, inaccessible, including, mischance, optimism, tenacity, treatment, yielding
«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
«When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Education,
Planning,
Virtue
| Keywords:
hereditary, planning, posterity