Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
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My heritage is something that I have always been aware of, however, some would say that there is a disproportionately low number of Asians as professional athletes. I take pride in trying my best to be a role model to show young Asian American boys and girls that they are only limited by the size of their dreams.
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In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
