Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Quotes

In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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• I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Live
  • Democracy
  • Care

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Society
  • Embrace

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Plant

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Know
  • Democracy

• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • May
  • Stop
  • Democracy

• The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • World
  • Voice

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • People
  • Study
  • Acting

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Voice
  • Act
  • Depend

• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Fear

• We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Society
  • Morning

• Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Brain

• Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for 'vulgarity'; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Education

• A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Football
  • Dangerous
  • Retirement

• Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Dream
  • Eye
  • Imagine

• You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Spirit

• In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Voice