"So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Democracies Have Quotes #Political Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.”

Source : Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.278, Profile Books
“Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener”
“You can be barefoot and have worries.”
“We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.”
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”
“All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals”
“There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.”
“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

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