Without democracy freedom is a chimera -- Octavio Paz
#Democracy Quotes #Chimera Quotes #Democracy Freedom Quotes
“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”
“Politics in America is the binding secular religion.”
“If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.”
“Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.”
“I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.”
“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.”
“Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.”
“I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.”
“No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.”
