Alain de Benoist Quotes
The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
-
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
-
In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
-
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
-
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
-
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
-
I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
-
I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
-
I am a fiscal conservative.
-
Humor is a part of spirituality.
-
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
-
I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
-
There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
-
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
-
A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'
-
She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
-
The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.
-
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
-
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
-
Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.
-
When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.
-
The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
