The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.
You have to name it to claim it
No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject.
People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.