"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."

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Source : Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186

Edmund Burke

#Freedom Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.”
“History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.”
“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
“That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure...”
“It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.”

Source : "Nasdaq 100-Open". Interview with Bud Collins, Butch Buchholz, www.asapsports.com. March 31, 2006.
“Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”
“It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.”

Source : Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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