#inherit

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#despair #drive #equanimity #father #him

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#arms race #child #children #inheritance #nations

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#beautiful girls #desire #father #i #inherited

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different? ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#ago #different #every #every man #fathers

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#american history #be the first #children #fewer #first

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#conquer #country #culture #empty #forgotten

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for? ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#going #inherited #more #opportunities #something

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#comes #course #death #gifted #him

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#doubt #earth #going #inherit #slightest

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches. ↗

— Sid Fleischman

#holocaust #inheritance #experience