#rely

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#collective #demographic #economic #economic growth #futures

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#europe #india #merely #powerful

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#less #more #often #order #policing

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#drink #other #perfection #rarely #sensuality

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. ↗

— Paul Valery

#artist #finishes #his #merely #never

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#extended #money #none #purchase #rarely

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#certainty #confuse #different #different things #entirely

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#invent #lives #our #own #up

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#challenge #culture #market #merely #place