"In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with."

-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Intelligent Quotes #Giving Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
“Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.”
“One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.”
“Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.”
“When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.”
“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”

Source : "Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".
“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
“Creativity is basically subversive. . . .”

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