Democratic Quote by Mary McCarthy Download Open image “In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.” — Mary McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democratic Enjoy Equality Facts Matter Science
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.” — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that. — Ali Abdullah Saleh Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move the Senate… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image