Chimera Quote by Octavio Paz Download Open image “Without democracy freedom is a chimera” — Octavio Paz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chimera Democracy Democracy freedom Freedom
“the alleged clash between freedom and security, that is, a security guaranteed by the state, turns out to be a chimera. For there is… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of… — Marvin Simkin Copy Share Image
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. — Friedrich Ebert Copy Share Image
True democracy is allowing freedom for others even though it reduces ones own. — Robert D Dangoor Copy Share Image
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Freedom for every nation must be based in a organized manner.Otherwise it will called as democracy. — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens. — Alastair Farrugia Copy Share Image
“Democracy is just a process that reflects the morals and ethics of the people who vote. It doesn't guarantee you freedom—just check out the… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where… — Keith Preston Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous. ("The Blue Bouquet")” — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Two bodies face to face Are at times two waves And the night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face Are sometimes two… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
