"Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans."

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Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 23, 1989.

William Pfaff

#Believe Quotes #Government Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I don't get involved in record label politics.”
“But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."”
“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
“God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.”
“I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.”

Source : "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.”
“Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.”

Source : Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20
“When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.”

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