Exemption Quotes
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"Familiarity is the thing -- the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness"
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More Exemption Quotes
Alexander was still the Greek avenger of Persian sacrilege who told his troops, it was said 'that Persepolis was the most hateful city in the world'. On the road there, he met with the families of Greeks who had deported to Persia by previous kings, and true to his slogan, he honoured them conspicuously, giving them money, five changes of clothing, farm animals, corn, a free passage home, and exemption from taxes and bureaucratic harassments.
robin lane fox— p.256 (Alexander the Great)
There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
william hazlitt— "On the Tendency of Sects"
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
Daniel Webster— Page 93. (On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843))
The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
john dewey— Summary
