Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
-
I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
-
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-
I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
-
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
-
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
-
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
-
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
-
I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
-
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.
-
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
-
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
-
The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
-
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
-
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
-
You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
-
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
-
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
-
Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.
-
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
-
I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
-
From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
-
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.
-
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
