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Prerogative Quotes

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.

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.

Peter L. Berger
Compare, Prerogative, Ifs

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

Roland Barthes
Waiting, Constant, Prerogative
Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb
Sick, Enjoy, Prerogative
Charles Lamb (1879). “The Last Essays of Elia”

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Mankind, Gluttony, Prerogative

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

Aung San Suu Kyi
Conflict, Democratic, Prerogative
Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

Ray Charles
Like Something, Mines, Prerogative

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

Napoleon Hill
Mind, Creator, Prerogative

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rich, Prerogative, Generous
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Mahatma Gandhi
Renunciation, Prerogative
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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