"For politicians to be honest, the public needs……" — Rory Stewart
"For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen."
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29 Quotes by Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart has 29 quotes on this site.
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I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said,…
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The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
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If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their…
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In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey,…
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient…
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I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in…
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The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees…
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Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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