Prerogative Quotes

• 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.'

  Shannen Doherty

  Life Changing, Eye, Drunk

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• When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

  Francis Bacon

  Loss, Funny Friend, Men

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• Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Civilization, Curse

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Equality, Men

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Energy, Littles, Violence

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

  Corliss Lamont

  Believe, Men, Decision

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• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Taken, Luxury

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• I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

  Judith Butler

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Clever

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Doubt

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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• The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Fool, Firsts

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Responsibility, Age, Harlots

  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.'

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• The first is the law, the last prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Law, Literature, Lasts

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• It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

  Neil Gaiman

  Truth, Science, Fool

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• 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.

  Tom Stoppard

  Responsibility, House, Age

  Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966) pt. 6. Cf. Rudyard Kipling

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  Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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• It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Clothes, Half

  "The Sandman". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, January 1989-March 1996.

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• Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Conflict, Democratic, Disagree

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Mean, Independent

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

  Roland Barthes

  Waiting, Constant

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, People, Tea

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Martin Chuzzlewi”, p.728, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

  Louis Dudek

  Forgiveness, Law, Forgiving

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• The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Creator, One Thing

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• Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Sex, Confused

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.407

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

  Charles I of England

  Kings, People, Liberty

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