#account

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. ↗

— June Jordan

#apparently #because #behalf #boat #cannot

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#beings #cases #difficult #human #human beings

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#became #because #belong #civic #equal

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#any #deeply #go #got #governments

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#appear #day #day to day #determined #down

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#accounts #comfortable #even #feel #homes

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#accounted #case #i #low #myself

If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of "So Blue". ↗

— Phil Harris

#alone #blue #both #both sides #dot

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#accounting #boring #care #ever #find

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#dollar #freedom #i #maybe #nothing