"Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of expertsâ€”and that is a very good thing."

-- Thomas Piketty

#Democracy Quotes #Republic Quotes #Experts Quotes

“The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.”

Source : Arthur Paul Davis, Jay Saunders Redding, Joyce Ann Joyce (1991). “The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present”
“The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.”
“I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.”

Source : Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.
“There were only two kinds of people in our town. â€•The stupid and the stuck- â€•The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.”
“(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.”
“To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.”
“I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.”

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