"The tragedy of modern democracies is that they……" — Jacques Maritain
"The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy."
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Jacques Maritain
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29 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain has 29 quotes on this site.
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is…
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world…
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means,…
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A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ…
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to…
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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence…
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The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and…
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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all…
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable…
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single…
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More Democracies Quotes
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic…
— Benazir Bhutto
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,'…
— Noam Chomsky
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Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
— Hillary Clinton
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by…
— Ajahn Brahm
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources,…
— Winston Churchill
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent…
— Tony Blair
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Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need.…
— Jeff Bridges
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the…
— Demosthenes
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We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that…
— James Lovelock
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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