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  • Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

    Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin
  • Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.

    "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.
  • Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

  • There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

    Order   Band   Born  
    Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_”, p.1171, e-artnow
  • What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

    George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.160, Arcturus Publishing
  • These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

    Kings   Government   Law  
    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3028, Delphi Classics
  • The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

    Science   Diversity   Doe  
    Swami Abhedananda (2005). “Vedanta Philosophy”, p.34, 1st World Publishing
  • Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  • If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

    Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.

    Race   Blood   World  
    Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.252, eKitap Projesi
  • If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

    Spiritual   Men   Ties  
    Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7206, e-artnow
  • Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

  • The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.

    "NRA Leader Once Worked for Professor Who Claimed Blacks Were Genetically Inferior" by David Corn and Pema Levy, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 2018.
  • Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a person of great or petty character.

  • The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.

  • Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

    Men   Thinking   Honor  
  • Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

    "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 246), 1848.
  • Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

    Wisdom   Children   Grace  
  • I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

  • [The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

    Hate   Party   Believe  
    James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.482
  • Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

    Mother   Eye   Men  
    John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”
  • The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

    "Balthazar".
  • We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

    Daughter   Children   Son  
  • In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.

    Mean   Men   Rights  
  • 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.

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor
  • In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

    Ideas   Apples   Ramadan  
    Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86
  • OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

    Race   Influence   Born  
    James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand
  • Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

    Sin   Conquer   Indolence  
  • There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

    Strong   Reading   Moving  
  • I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.

    Nature   Excellence   Bed  
    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.466
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