"I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion."

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Public Opinion Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Ministers Quotes

“Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.”
“I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.”
“I feel like as a whole, when it comes to the "other" in the US - whatever that looks like for each individual person, whether it be someone who's LGBTQ or someone of color or someone who's just a religion that they've never heard of - whether you're in entertainment or whether you're in any other business, we're not as evolved as we'd like to think.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.”
“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.”
“Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?”
“I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.”

Source : "Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies". news.bbc.co.uk. April 23, 2007.

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