"If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public."

-- Rory Stewart

#Democracy Quotes #Politician Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you canâ€™t measure something, you canâ€™t understand it. If you canâ€™t understand it, you canâ€™t control it. If you canâ€™t control it, you canâ€™t improve it.”
“The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.”
“Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.”

Source : "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.
“When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.”
“It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.”
“I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.”

Source : www.tapatalk.com. January 2, 2014.
“As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.”
“I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?”

You may also like:

Aaron Huey
Photographer
Asne Seierstad
Freelance Writer
Babur
Mughal Emperor
David Alan Harvey
Photographer
Menzies Campbell
British Politician
Paul Nicklen
Photographer
Robert Byron
Writer
Wilfred Thesiger
Writer
Priti Patel
British Politician