"Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues……" — Orhan Pamuk
"Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy."
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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site.
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
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If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like…
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Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that…
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Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is…
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must,…
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book:…
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace…
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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value…
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
— James Dobson
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How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to…
— Gloria Steinem
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Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper…
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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse…
— Errico Malatesta
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Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared…
— Harry Hay
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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy…
— Bob Black
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Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point…
— Josh Marshall
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It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from…
— Chen Shui-bian
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What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's…
— Leonard Read
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It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to…
— George Orwell
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why…
— Ama Ata Aidoo
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My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to…
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