Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.Bertrand de Jouvenel
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
Walter Isaacson -
The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
Albert Einstein -
I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.
Barack Obama -
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
Dale Carnegie -
You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?
Kristen Stewart
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Madison Avenue is responsible for that, ... In fact, 'Beach Girls' (her upcoming Lifetime movie) is made for, designed for, and targeted to the 18 to 34 age group.
Cloris Leachman -
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
Ernest Hemingway -
Incompetence is the true crisis.
Albert Einstein -
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
William James -
The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.
Adolf Hitler
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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
William Stanley Jevons -
We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
Marianne Williamson -
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
Akbar Ganji -
The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God's law.
David Chilton -
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.
Bertrand de Jouvenel