If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is. . . in science and scientific technique.
If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.
What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?
Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i. e. , the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.
I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given. . . " she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, ". . . I hold in an open hand.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long. . . If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own
I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority. . .
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.