Ethos Quote by T.S. Eliot Download Open image ““The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”” — T.S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethos Habits People Politicians Politics
“Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.” — William Edgar Stafford Copy Share Image
“People who choose to be politicians tend to be people who need constant supervision.” — Sam Wilson Copy Share Image
“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them. If you want to lead people, You must learn how to… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Similarly, those who have been weaned off the self-aggrandizing attractions of political power are those who can then best be entrusted with it.” — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“The problem with all politicians is that they are human.” — Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.” — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Are you a politician? I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.” — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones — In fact, he's remarkably fat. He doesn't haunt pubs — he has eight or nine clubs,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and why the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods.… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I'm an Indian and I shall not do anything that goes against my ethos. — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image