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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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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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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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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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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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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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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It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
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The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
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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.
