#wil

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#insult #man #me #will

I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#band #be different #brand #different #different people

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label. ↗

— William Glasser

#bad #could #dealing #him #label

Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a united Europe. ↗

— Janez Drnovsek

#europe #european #former #integration #other

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#again #because #busy #career #creative

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#am #anxious #country #deaths #die

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that! ↗

— Eleonora Duse

#had #humanity #i #live #nearer