Paschenko Quotes & Sayings

Debate is never finished; it can't be, lest democracy be no longer democratic and society be stripped of or forfeit its autonomy. Democracy means that the citizen's task is never complete. Democracy exists through persevering and unyielding citizens' concern. Once that concern is put to sleep, democracy expires.
And so there is no, and cannot be, a democracy, an autonomous society, without autonomous citizens - that is, citizens endowed with individual liberty and individual responsibility for the ways they use it. That liberty is another value - though unthinkable in separation from the value of democracy. Democracy rests on the freedom of its citizens, and citizens rest their confidence of being free and the courage to be free on the democracy of their polis. The two make each other and are made in the process of that making. — Zygmunt Bauman

In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils. — Vicious

He's hit it fat ... It will probably be short ... It just hit the front edge of the green ... It's got no chance ... It's rolling toward the cup ... Well I'll be damned! — Jimmy Demaret

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. — Nina Simone

Goals are as essential to success as air is to life. — David J. Schwartz

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself. — Rumi

A free and independent press is generally considered essential for democracy, both to raise timely questions about debatable government policies and to report challenges to those policies when they fail. — W. Lance Bennett

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. — Daniel Goleman

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet. — Pico Iyer

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. — Nate Berkus

She's the Incredible Hulk version of a saber-toothed tiger. And she's seriously pissed off. — Peter Telep