D. Elton Trueblood Quotes
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.
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There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
