"Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Democracy Quotes #Speak Quotes #Persons Quotes

“[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.”
“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.”
“I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death is a master from Germany.”
“Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.”

Source : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
“If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.”

Source : "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.
“I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion”
“The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.”

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