"Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage……" — Michael D. Higgins
"Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe."
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24 Quotes by Michael D. Higgins
Michael D. Higgins has 24 quotes on this site.
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I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home.…
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I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic…
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Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
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I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was…
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We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate…
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
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The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next…
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I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its…
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I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young…
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Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I…
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Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where…
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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic…
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all…
— Madeleine Albright
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions…
— Paulo Freire
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population…
— Friedrich Engels
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an…
— Thomas Naylor
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one…
— Unknown Author
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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression…
— Sebastian Haffner
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
— Germaine Greer
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry…
— Paulo Freire
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development ,…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never…
— Mickey Rourke
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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that…
— George W. Bush
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