#emo

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#bloody #commit #democracy #did #either

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#interesting #keep #memoir #mind #necessarily

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#any #closely #come #described #explicit

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic? ↗

— Ahmed Ali

#democratic #does #govern #him #mean

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be. ↗

— GG Allin

#compatible #demons #i #never #will

Mrs. Cole was a good democrat. She hated all kids equally. ↗

— Stephen King

#humor #it #stephen-king #equality