Inalienable

Famous quotes containing the word inalienable:

“A separation situation is different for adults than it is for children. When we were very young children, a physical separation was interpreted as a violation of our inalienable rights....As we grew older, the withdrawal of love, whether that meant being misunderstood, mislabeled or slighted, became the separation situation we responded to.”
—Roger Gould (20th century)

“In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.”
—Constance Rourke (1885–1941)

“Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)