Subject's Quotes
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Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.
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More Subject's Quotes
Spare the poet for his subject's sake.
william cowper— 1782 Poems,'Charity', l.636.
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
john dryden— 1685 Threnodia Augustalis, stanza10.
The corset is a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitality and rendering her permanently and obviously unfit for work.
thorstein veblen— Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him. Involving objectivity is abrogating responsibility – hence its popularity.
heinz von foerster— Heinz von Foerster cited in: B. Poerksen (2004). The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivism. p.3
Swinburne was perpetually talking shop: the bookish spirit in which he looked on nature and mankind, with his head full of his own trade, is essentially the same as the spirit in which The Tailor and Cutter annually criticises the portraits in the Royal Academy, interested, not in the artist, not in the subject, but in the cut of the subject's clothes.
algernon charles swinburne— A. E. Housman, "Swinburne", a lecture delivered at University College, London in 1910, published posthumously in the Cornhill Magazine (Autumn 1969).
And spare the poet for his subject's sake.
william cowper— William Cowper, Charity, last line
Any parapsychological effect that depends upon volition, upon the subject's intent, must differ from synchronicity.
— Victor Mansfield, in Distinguishing synchronicity from the paranormal in Synchronicity, Science, and Soulmaking: Understanding Jungian Syncronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy (1996) p. 12
