Best Subjects Quotes

We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed…. Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

Passion, intellect, moral activity – these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn’t worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn’t have provoked so much opposition.

I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can’t give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

A spectre is haunting Western academia (…), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it’s a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Do you have to do murder?
Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects–a woman’s chastity, and murder. Nobody’s interested in chastity any more. Murder’s all we got to write stories about.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

The painter’s obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

There’s nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It’s you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you’ve said it.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people’s than of your own choosing.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

We didn’t talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn’t talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn’t talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it’s perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.