"Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society."

-- Alejandro Castro Espin

#Class Quotes #Rights Quotes #House Quotes

“Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.”
“I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.”
“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”
“The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.”
“The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.”
“God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.”

Source : Plotinus, Thomas Taylor, Synesius Cyrenensis (1817). “Select works ¬of ¬Plotinus, ...: and extracts from the treatise of Synesius On Providence : Translated from the greek ; with an introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's life of Plotinus”, p.492
“If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.”

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