"The well being of democracies regardless of their……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary."
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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of…
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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a…
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Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer…
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We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with…
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero…
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets…
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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.
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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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