"Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better."

-- Atifete Jahjaga

#Rights Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Election Quotes

“I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.”
“Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.”

Source : Stanley Unwin (1926). “The truth about publishing. by Stanley Unwin ...”
“I think itâ€™s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it Iâ€™ve never had any fear in my whole life when weâ€™ve been near collapse and all of that. Iâ€™ve never been afraid. Iâ€™ve never had the feeling I couldnâ€™t walk out and get a job doing something.”
“Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”
“One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.”
“I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.”

Source : "Niecy Nash Rebuts Reality TV Haters:‘We Are Talented, Too’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.
“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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