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“The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.”

Mind Long Doe Government Lasts Subjects Bears India Claims Blow British Innocent Nails Coffins Civilised British Rule British Rule In India

Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.”

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Differences Subjects Identity Position Demand Claims Relation Absolutes All Time Recognition Categories Identical Reciprocity Individuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.”

Thinking Whole Goal Feminism Subjects Movement Claims Tired Feminist Eras Posts Mistaken Feminist Movement

Book:The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

“The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.”

Science Lying Consciousness Subjects Fields Claims Method

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.”

Way Subjects Position Approach Claims Method Skepticism

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.”

Law Challenges Subjects Claims Lays Denied Inheritance Attorney Descent

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.”

Lying Subjects Claims Method

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.”

Has Beens Important Interest Attention Subjects Claims Photographer Predictions Viewers

Author:Frank Gohlke