"Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings."

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Source : Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

Raymond Aron

#Party Quotes #Practice Quotes #Names Quotes

“You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary”
“There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.”
“When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.”
“I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.”
“We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.”
“I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.”
“No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.”

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