Basic Subjects

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or subjects:

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)