Boast Quote by Alberto Moravia Download Open image “Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.” — Alberto Moravia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Democracies have Democracy Dictatorship Freedom Motivational One way Streets Traffic Two Two ways Way
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
You know, the fact is that if we haven't got democracy, we have dictatorship. That is never the answer. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“one man with vision—an enlightened dictator. People are scared of the word nowadays. But what kind of democracy can exist side by side with… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
