#subjected

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#general #govern #governed #man #people

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#could #made #men #people #subjected

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#brutal #feels #idea #like #middle-class

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ↗

— Robert Frank

#black #black and white #colors #despair #forever

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ↗

— Robert Frost

#beginners #business #market #modern #money

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#appears #because #colour #light #reflection

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#come #daily #daily life #enough #i

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#every #how #improvement #inventory #lives

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#either #else #every #found #justification

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#country #expectation #individual #law #mental