Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke -
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
Samantha Bee -
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
Aaron Levie -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
Foster Friess
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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.
Gary Oldman -
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Tatyana Ali -
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader -
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Karen Armstrong -
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi -
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Babasaheb
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
Larry J. Sabato -
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne -
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader -
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
Harold Russell -
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz -
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Jack Schwartz
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman -
The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.
Francois Arnaud -
I had a little friend, a peasant boy, who was younger than me. I was about ten. One day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot and a square milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively. ‘“What are you doing?” I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn. ‘“What shape is water?” ‘“Water doesn’t have any shape!” I said, laughing. “It takes the shape you give it at”
Andrea Camilleri -
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Gary Neville -
The general will is always right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau