Birthright Quotes - page 3

"I've been on my own before, Mather.” And I hadn't been happy a moment. But happiness is a fleeting creature. It's no birthright. Not anything I expect but something I accept when I tumble into it. Meantime, power will do nicely. (Glen Cook)
The "we” of your divine birthright - the one that is aware of its place as part of the collective whole - knows that it is your sacred obligation to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory but each day. View quote
Debbie Ford
This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict. View quote
Lawrence Wright
My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. View quote
Michael Fox
We make a grave mistake when we assume this spirit of connectedness is automatic or inevitable. It is not a birthright. A united country is an enduring struggle. It takes collective work and individual sacrifice. It is not enough to call on others or wait for a leader to emerge who will exalt our national values. I believe this is the question we face, as citizens of this nation: what will we do to affirm this most critical American virtue? View quote
Cory Booker
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy. View quote
Michael Anti
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin. View quote
Sheri L. Dew
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. View quote
Steve Jurvetson
If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright – that of equality. View quote
Neville Goddard
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process. View quote
Don Willett
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy. (Mary Pickford)
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom. View quote
Ayn Rand
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use. View quote
Plotinus
Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity. View quote
Henry Beston
Online births and deaths in Facebook Nation made me question why people could not live without borders. Birthright citizenship is like being baptized into a religion as an infant. Taking a page from Veronica Roth's novel Divergent, people should be free to choose where they belong when they grow up. View quote
Newton Lee
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Effectively a portcullis has slammed down between the individual and their godhead. ‘You can't approach your godhead except through us now. We are the only path. Our church is the only path.' But that is every human being's birthright, to have ingress to their godhead. View quote
Alan Moore
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of the land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy - and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his fathers' graves, and his children's birthright is forgotten. View quote
Chief Seattle
All soil is human birthright. View quote
Statius
Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it. View quote
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. (Meher Baba)
He was born stupid and greatly improved his birthright. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ. View quote
James Kennedy (televangelist)
The year of jubilee has come; Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand; Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil, The corn, the wine, and all the harvest-home. View quote
Edmund Clarence Stedman
I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright. View quote
Anthony Robbins