Quotes with democracy-direct

Quotes 261 till 280 of 324.

  • Louis Pasteur The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Armistead Maupin The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The world must be made safe for democracy.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Hillary Clinton The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Nader There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Bobby Ghosh There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Carl Hiaasen There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Plato These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Boris Johnson This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Eknath Easwaran Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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  • Maxwell Maltz Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bertrand Russell To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ben Affleck To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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