Prerogative Quotes

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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. View quote
Neil Gaiman
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. View quote
Peter L. Berger
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.' View quote
Shannen Doherty
Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive The first is law, the last prerogative. View quote
John Dryden
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. View quote
Anthony Burgess
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life. View quote
Anthony Crosland
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! View quote
Jane Taylor
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. (Mark Twain)
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative” to determine the products. View quote
Paul Goodman
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now. View quote
Bob Brown
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. View quote
Corliss Lamont
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working. View quote
Mike Leigh
We the Subscribers say, that the General Assembly of this Commonwealth have no such authority: And that no effort may be omitted on our part against so dangerous an usurpation, we oppose to it, this remonstrance; earnestly praying, as we are in duty bound, that the Supreme Lawgiver of the Universe, by illuminating those to whom it is addressed, may on the one hand, turn their Councils from every act which would affront his holy prerogative, or violate the trust committed to them: and on the other, guide them into every measure which may be worthy of his blessing, may redound to their own praise, and may establish more firmly the liberties, the prosperity and the happiness of the Commonwealth. View quote
James Madison
Consciousness of the Absolute is the prerogative of human intelligence, and also its aim. View quote
Frithjof Schuon
The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side - the side of corruption and prerogative. View quote
William Hazlitt
This deadly impasse, the tightening of the corporate totalitarian noose, would have continued if Snowden had not jolted the nation awake by disclosing the massive crimes of the prerogative state. (Chris Hedges)
All those who challenge the abuses of power by the prerogative state, like Snowden, who expose the crimes carried out by government, are turned into criminals. Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked that rule, and it is the just that are damned. View quote
Chris Hedges
It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today? View quote
Jim Butcher
Sound opinion is not the exclusive prerogative of those who are paid to give it. View quote
Frederick E. Morgan
To be ignorant is not the special prerogative of man; to know that he is ignorant is his special privilege. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan