#closed

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#behind #broadcast #closed #commercial #congressional

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

The door can never be closed for good to any player. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#closed #door #good #never #player

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#every #eye #not sleeping #open #seeing

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#closed #doubt #fool #keep #mouth

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#closed #crime #everybody #final #getting

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing