Fraser Tytler Quotes & Sayings

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. — Alexander Fraser Tytler

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. — Bryce Dallas Howard

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights) — Thomas Pluck

The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way. — Bryant McGill

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy. — Alexander Fraser Tytler

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy
to be followed by a dictatorship. — Alexander Fraser Tytler

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next. — C.S. Lewis

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy. — Alexander Fraser Tytler

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage. — Alexander Fraser Tytler

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness. — Lucian Freud

You wouldnt kill me. Youd miss me! — Sophie Marceau

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began. — Sebastian Faulks