"September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because……" — Rory Stewart
"September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves."
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29 Quotes by Rory Stewart
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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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