"The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America, that would be a judicial elite telling us how we meant to vote or should have voted."

-- John Leo

#Believe Quotes #Should Have Quotes #America Quotes

“I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.”
“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
“It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'”
“Light in the heart has an interesting phenomenon. When you look at this world from here, now, light has shadows because light comes from a source. But, the same light inside the heart, which I've spent so much time looking at and so have other people, has no shadow because the light appears to come from everywhere.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“In the first Chucky film, there's a scene in the elevator where a woman is just bringing food to a friend's home and they're in that cage elevator. She says, 'What an ugly doll,' and walks away. As the elevator begins to descend, Brad just decides he's going to drop this in and it was so simple but he just goes 'F*&k you,' and the audience went crazy. It was really a marker for us, and an evolution to understand what the potential of not just this killer, but this guy that obviously has some opinions as well.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.”
“Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?”

Source : Kofi Awoonor (1987). “Until the morning after: selected poems, 1963-85”, Greenfield Review Pr
“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”

Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 8), 2004.

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