Paternal Quotes

You don't want to be paternalistic. We can make unwise decisions at all ages. You have to look at whether the person is vulnerable and does the person fit the definition of diminished capacity under the law. - Rebecca Morgan

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. - Benjamin Disraeli

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. - Herbert Hoover

When the legitimate son of the body divides the paternal estate, he shall give one sixth or one fifth part of his father s property to the son begotten on the wife. - Guru Nanak

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once. - William Hazlitt

We believe that we've been contacted by a woman who thinks she may be the paternal grandmother in this case. - Dwayne Baird

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name. - Simon Newcomb

To deny it or to shake your finger at it is a limited and very paternal... point of view in a sense. - Andrea Anderson

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song. - Peter R. Grant

There is no blame on the blind man, nor is there blame on the lame, nor is there blame on the sick, nor on yourselves that you eat from your houses, or your fathers' houses or your mothers' houses, or your brothers' houses, or your sisters' houses, or your paternal uncles' houses, or your paternal aunts' houses, or your maternal uncles' houses, or your maternal aunts' houses, or what you possess the keys of, or your friends' (houses). It is no sin in you that you eat together or separately. So when you enter houses, greet your people with a salutation from Allah, blessed (and) goodly; thus does Allah make clear to you the communications that you may understand. - Quran