Democratie Definitie Quotes & Sayings

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external. — Franz Grillparzer

The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke. — Ben Aaronovitch

Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era. — Ernest Cline

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read? — J.K. Rowling

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen

I haven't come to tell you I've got juice
I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level — KRS-One

The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw them a few bread crumbs. They will then follow you forever. — Joseph Stalin

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work. — Jeff Bingaman

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. — Mason Cooley

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. — T.D. Jakes

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine. — Helen Keller

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever. — Novak Djokovic

Grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby

But with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other. — Robin McKinley