#persons

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

#drama #happens #important #infrequently #into

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#choice #constituted #maintain #matter #obligations

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#give #government #law #persons #power

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! ↗

— John Pearson

#affection #best #esteemed #excellent #father

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

#christian #civil #civil rights #denomination #extended

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#across #between #both #cement #charged

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country. ↗

— William Windham

#country #entrusted #persons #should #some

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead? Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a "missing person"... That is what happens to magical girls in the end. Madoka: ...That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone... That's just too lonely a fate... Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice... for the world to forget us... That is just something we have to accept. ↗

— Magica Quartet

#cruel #cruel-lesson #dead #death #dying