Lord Acton Quotes
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.Lord Acton
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
Ina Garten -
I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
Vaclav Klaus -
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
Camille Paglia -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
Hank Johnson -
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
Babasaheb
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
Gautam Gambhir -
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
Larry Page -
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Harold Wilson -
Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
Edgardo Osorio -
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise
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I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.
Nandan Nilekani -
We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.
N. Robert Hammer -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid -
Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
Rachel Stevens -
If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
Valorie Curry -
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn -
It is simplest to think of mathematics as the catalogue of all possible patterns. ...When viewed in this way, it is inevitable that the world is described by mathematics. ...In many ways the search for a Theory of Everything is a manifestation of a faith that this compression goes all the way down to the bedrock of reality...
John D. Barrow -
The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.
William Cullen Bryant -
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.
George Washington -
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
Albert Camus -
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton