"It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities."

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Source : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan

Ramachandra Guha

#Democracy Quotes #Visionaries Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364
“It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
“I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.”

Source : Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.1080, MIRA
“It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
“I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.”
“Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.”
“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?”

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