David Harsanyi Quotes

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

David Harsanyi

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• It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Easy

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Funny
  • Wish
  • Government

• Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • Democracy

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Democracy
  • Road
  • Socialism

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Environment

• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Moving
  • Democracy
  • Competition

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Fall
  • Humility

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Strong
  • Democracy
  • Smart

• The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Democracy
  • Beauty
  • Random

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Freedom

• God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Author
  • Authority

• Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree, nor the firelight's glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Men
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Science
  • Purpose

• The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Fall
  • Democracy