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  • Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

    Brother   Men   Speech  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.80
  • It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

    Truth   Science   Fool  
    Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”
  • Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc
  • I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 05, 2009
  • Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

    Freedom   Land   Sole  
    'Threnodia Augustalis' (1685) st. 10
  • But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

    Exercise   Men   Doe  
    Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.52
  • As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

    Laurence Sterne (1783). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.101
  • All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

  • The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

    Kings   People   Liberty  
  • Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

  • The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

    Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

    Stars   Character   Men  
    Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
  • When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none.

    "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
  • Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

  • We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

    Home   Bird   Sailing  
  • The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

    Class   Luck   Middle  
  • Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

    Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

    Two   People   Tea  
    Charles Dickens (2009). “Martin Chuzzlewi”, p.728, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

    Art   Sex   Class  
    Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr
  • Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

    Men   Trying   Moral  
    Alexis De Tocqueville (2010). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.45, Anchor
  • If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists to the court, I'm the only candidate with that record. That's why conservatives are uniting behind our campaign. And if they want to continue with the attacks, that's their prerogative.

    "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.
  • In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2033, e-artnow
  • If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

  • What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

    Errors   Law   Tolerance  
  • 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.

    Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966) pt. 6. Cf. Rudyard Kipling
  • The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

    1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'
  • Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

    Heart   Broken   May  
    Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.679, Harvard University Press
  • It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

    Mind   Desire   Dominion  
  • The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

    Men   Errors   Wisest Man  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.61
  • A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

    Wise   Children   Father  
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