"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Wisdom Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Apathy Quotes

“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
“What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.”
“Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.”
“Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.”
“That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.”
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
“You get what you're good enough to take.”
“[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.”

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