"In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age."

-- Klemens von Metternich

#Government Quotes #Europe Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I call my balls the bush twins.”
“Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.”
“We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.”
“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”
“I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.”
“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”
“I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.”
“Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.”

Source : Joseph Butler (1856). “The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature: to which are added, two brief dissertations : On personal identity, and On the nature of virtue; and fifteen sermons”, p.404

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