Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
C. S. LewisThereneed, at all events, be none ofthis,if peoplewould but live upon their own estates, and kill their own mutton.
Maria EdgeworthEquality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. . . With an equality of civil rights, all men are equal before the law; all classes of the community being liable equally to taxation, military service, jury duties, and to the other impositions attendant on civilization, and no one being exempted from its control, except on general rules, which are dependent on the good of all, instead of the exemption's belonging to the immunities of individuals, estates, or families. An equality of civil rights may be briefly defined to be an absence of privileges.
james fenimore cooperThere was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.
robert heilbronerEnough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life ; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family.
The law is so benignant in this country that it sometimes contradicts itself in order to preserve estates.
Their Lordships of the Upper House...are one member of the Parliament; and also that the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of this House representing the whole Commons of this Realm are also another member of the same Parliament; and her Majesty the Head; and that of these three estates doth consist the whole body of Parliament able to make laws.
cecil, william, 1st baron burghleyLook round, the wrecks of play behold; estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.
john gayBurke said there were Three estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, - very momentous to us in these times.
Burke said there were Three estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
thomas carlyle