Immunity Quotes - Page 2

• Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

  Djuna Barnes

  Sleep, Demand, Guilty

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Pleasure, Settings

  Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.100, Clarendon Press

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• If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

  Eric Idle

  Laughter, Special, Groups

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• America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

  Cal Thomas

  Organization, America, Political

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• I can assure you full immunity is not on the table. But your hand is.

  Jack Bauer

  Hands, Tables

  "24: Live Another Day/ 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ordinary, Citizens, Development

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• All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

  Robert Payne

  Kings, Pope, Glory

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180), 1975.

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• In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

  Eric Liu

  Law, Privilege, Movement

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Loyalty, Believe, Political Opinions

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Our World, Toxins

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• I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

  Jules Renard

  Ugly, Sacred, Privilege

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.187, Tin House Books

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• The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Bishop, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1971). “Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Running, Pride, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
  Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.

  James F. Cooper

  Military, Men, Law

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

  Saddam Hussein

  Rights, Evil, President

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

  Michele Bachmann

  Rights, People, Underwear

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• How can you stand touching her?” my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?” I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.” Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling glove for his—” “Gretchen!” my father cut her off. My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter. “He has a natural immunity,” I gritted out.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Laughter, Father

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• Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Laughing, Temptation

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.15, Macmillan

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• There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.

  Ilona Andrews

  Comforting, Easy, Not Sure

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!

  Suzanne Collins

  Government, Voice, Safety

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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• There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Elements, Importance, Constant

  Elie Metchnikoff (1907). “Immunity in infective diseases”

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• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

  E. M. Forster

  Air, Expression, Names

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• Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mistake, Government, Effort

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

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