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.
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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.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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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.
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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.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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You can bet I will work with anyone in either party to fight for our veterans and their families, and I will make sure they get the attention and care they deserve.
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Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We are good, they are evil," or "We know what is good and right and we know what is wrong," so all questions are settled in advance by a set of ideological prejudices.
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One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.
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I think the world should be one community.
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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.
