Benjamin Constant Quotes
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
-
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
-
If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
-
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
-
I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
-
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
-
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
-
I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
-
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
-
We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
-
When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
-
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
-
After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
-
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
-
In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
-
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
-
Respect for one’s government and the expected obligations of citizenship have limits (though as a modern Western reader I am probably overly inclined to emphasize this qualification). Paul cooperated with the Jerusalem church’s identification with their culture (which was also his culture, Acts 21:20–26), but not to the extent of honoring such nationalism above his commitment to the Gentile mission (Acts 22:21–22). When Christians are more loyal to our ethnicity or nation than to Christ’s body, when nationalism or racism corrupts our love for fellow believers, we have gone beyond giving Caesar what is Caesar’s to giving Caesar what is God’s.
-
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
