Subjects

Famous quotes containing the word subjects:

“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)

“Such subjects are the very strength of kings, and are thus above the law.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)