Recognized

Famous quotes containing the word recognized:

“Not to over-breed will be one day recognized as not less essential for national well- being than breeding is.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)