#des

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#conceals #democracy #desolation #destruction #eruption

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. ↗

— Jack Anderson

#boxes #codes #communicates #exist #industry

Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#episodes #favorites #fun #i #lot

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. ↗

— Carl Andre

#desire #never #otherwise #springs #things

I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black. ↗

— John Albion Andrew

#awaits #because #black #despise #enough

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#gnaws #hearts #i #i love #know

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? ↗

— Michael Arad

#design #feel #form #how #own

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#beyond #catholic #catholic church #church #desirable