"This living in a democracy is a problem,…" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?"
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt has 390 quotes on this site.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
— Giorgio Armani
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
— Richard Armitage
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
— Karen Armstrong
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
— Chinua Achebe
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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