Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.
I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.
I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
