We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.
