Male Line Descendants

Famous quotes containing the words male, line and/or descendants:

    “... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books—with one hand.”
    —Robin Morgan (b. 1941)

    “What comes over a man, is it soul or mind
    That to no limits and bounds he can stay confined?
    You would say his ambition was to extend the reach
    Clear to the Arctic of every living kind.
    Why is his nature forever so hard to teach
    That though there is no fixed line between wrong and right,
    There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)