#no

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #babies #enemy #enjoyable #even

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#eagerness #exist #great #honor #pleasure

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you. ↗

— Bono

#become #different #famous #first #know

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#clearly #human #human affairs #known #nothing

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#empty #fame #legacy #name #nothing

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#culture #democracy #foremost #i #i do

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#anti-semitism #argue #been #cannot #citizens

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#cannot #defined #democracy #elections #existence