Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

John Dewey

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

John Dewey

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Terence McKenna

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

Thomas Piketty

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Marcello Lippi

Luckily we were able to win. It's so important to start off well.

Romulus Whitaker

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.

Alma Drunick

Luckily the police saw what was going on and stopped it.

Alma Drunick

Luckily police managed to notice what was going on.

Steve Box

Luckily nobody was harmed. The Oscar nomination has cheered everyone up.

Joe Kalb

Luckily I got a step and luckily it rattled down.

Roch Pilon

Luck will play a lot in it. Hey, that's short track.

German Proverb

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Tim Russert

Of course, if he had a wife he would say, 'Honey, you're lucky to have me.'

Charles Simmons

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

J. I. Packer

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

Jean Anouilh

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

George Herbert

Service is no Inheritance.

Margaret Sanger

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

James A. Garfield

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Karel Capek

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.