"A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

-- James Madison

#Party Quotes #Passion Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”
“I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.”
“Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin
“Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.”
“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

Source : "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser. "Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives". Book edited by Amélie Rorty, p. 294, 1998.
“As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.”
“Bald is the new black!”

Source : "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.
“He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.”

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