"Democracy is the best school to learn soft power."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Joseph Nye

#School Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Best School Quotes

“Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.”
“You'reÂ not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.”
“I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.”
“Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.”
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.”
“Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”
“When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.”
“The truth will form and fall apart again.”

Source : Song: Notes From The Underground, Album: The Baroness, 2008

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