Volja Kod Quotes & Sayings

In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance, while speaking at the symposium he wondered loud...
the quality of men who are selected by these modern democratic methods of adult franchise gradually deteriorates because of lack of thinking and the noise of propaganda....He[the voter] reacts to sound and to the din, he reacts to repetition and he produces either a dictator or a dumb politician who is insensitive. Such a politician can stand all the din in the world and still remain standing on his two feet and, therefore, he gets selected in the end because the others have collapsed because of the din.
-Quoted from India After Gandhi, page 157. — Ramachandra Guha

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson. — Bubba Watson

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond. — William Faulkner

So perhaps it was her grief I felt as I gazed on this child not mine, and not even much of a child anymore. Grief not for him, nor for Martha exactly, but for all my lost selves, which I liked to imagine were still somehow there, waiting for my return. But those selves were long gone. I would never be younger again. This was so simple it went without saying, but unsaid, one could try to forget it. — Susan Choi

Because that's the way the world works, isn't it? You can work hard and be miserable, or do nothing and be happy. — Brian Katcher

The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values. — Wes Fesler

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. — Phillips Brooks

I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx! — Octavia Spencer

Decency is when you put yourself before the needs of others, dignity lies in loyalty and humbleness; honor means honesty and openness, possess those and you will be most beautiful. — Bahman Solati

Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better - that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by. — Joshua Ferris