Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Nathan Myhrvold Quote: 'The reason societies with democratic governments ...'

Related Quotes

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac
Tags: Life Were Us
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
Taki Theodoracopulos
Tags: More Will See
dolomites mountains italy
I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.


Miranda Otto
Tags: Me Think I Think
pelmo dolomites alpine italy rock
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.


William Blake
Tags: Good Than Better
Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.
Joshua Oppenheimer
clouds sky nature weather forward
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.


Paul Samuelson
Tags: Good Some Every
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak Chopra
Tags: Health More Where
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
Freeman Dyson
Tags: Change You People
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali
Tags: Am I Am Making
winter snow wintry landscape tree
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.


Martin Sheen
Tags: Us Believe Still
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tags: Truth Your Than
dolomites mountains italy
There's nothing better than keeping fit. It gives me energy and helps me think more clearly.


Trevor Donovan
Tags: Me Think More
dolomites mountains italy
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.


Serj Tankian
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
Eddie Redmayne
Tags: Things Film Often
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann
There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back home. Successive governments have, in fact, been training them to export them rather than working on the economy to welcome them home.
Miguel Syjuco
Tags: Home Been Them
Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
Tags: Best You People
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
Carol Bellamy
Tags: Food Where Need