"In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Jens Stoltenberg

#Stronger Quotes #Resilient Quotes #Democratic Quotes

“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”
“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.”
“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.”
“I think people are well aware of our impact on the industry.”
“The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.”

Source : Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
“Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.”
“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”

Source : "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.
“I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.”

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