"Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right……" — Isocrates

More Abrasive Quotes

This quote is filed under Abrasive Quotes, one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change… — Saul Alinsky
• Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing… — Carl Icahn
• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated,… — Conrad Black
• What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go… — Kristen Stewart
• The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality. — Richard M. Nixon
• I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a… — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time, — Stella McCartney
• Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive,… — Simon Mawer
• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though… — John F. Kennedy
• The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. — Marshall McLuhan
• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40… — Isaac Asimov
• In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe.… — Shalom Harlow

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