"This weakening is worsened by the widening distance……" — Jacques Delors
"This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments."
—
Jacques Delors
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
28 Quotes by Jacques Delors
Jacques Delors has 28 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
-
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on…
-
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be…
-
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that…
-
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
-
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
-
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
-
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
-
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer…
-
Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
-
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
-
We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for…
See all 28 quotes by Jacques Delors »
More Distance Quotes
This quote is filed under Distance Quotes,
one of 2,234 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
-
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
-
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
-
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
-
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
-
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
-
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're…
— Lewis Black
-
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
-
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
-
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
See all 2,234 Distance Quotes »