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Rory Stewart has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic…
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The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
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If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but…
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In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's…
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and…
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I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying…
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The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with…
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Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
— Nolan Bushnell
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy…
— Edith Sitwell
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Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free…
— Maximus the Confessor
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An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted.…
— Joseph Addison
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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
— Edith Sitwell
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as…
— Rory Stewart
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When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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