"Politics feels, on what I have seen of……" — Rory Stewart
"Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving."
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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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More Behaving Quotes
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one of 176 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop…
— Leo Buscaglia
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in…
— Nick Cave
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how…
— Julie Andrews
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to…
— C.S. Lewis
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in…
— Simone Weil
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If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
— Pat Buchanan
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
— Marquis de Sade
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I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not.…
— Stephen King
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Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according…
— Freeman Dyson
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