Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Carl Icahn

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Ai Weiwei

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Edmund White

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Thucydides

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Agatha Christie

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Charles Spurgeon

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Neal Asher

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

Leon Jouhaux

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Geddy Lee

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

Mark Twain

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Geddy Lee

If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.

Anthony Chan

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

David Blunkett

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Bill Johnson

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Cheri Huber

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.

Christopher Paolini

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

E. Stanley Jones

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

David Platt

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

Prem Rawal

Surrender to what is ultimate. Surrender to what you really are!

John Ortberg

To become truly free, you must surrender.

Ellen G. White

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

King Abdullah

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Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.