#bsc

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#certainly #everything #i #idea #interesting

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #cast #causes #character #connect

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

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#any #anything #before #body #i

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#angles #any #anything #avoid #body

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#cannot #christ #creed #divinity #i

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bands #based #because #been #choose