Gradually Losing Democracy Quotes

#1. To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

Cassandra Clare

#2. There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

J. Edgar Hoover

#3. (Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)

Mallory Ortberg

#4. I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

Gil Scott-Heron

#5. Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."

Kevin Allen

#6. I spoke his language; I was fluent in shy.

C.L.Stone

#7. He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How

Matthieu Ricard

#8. Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days

it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language.

John Burnside

#9. The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.

Ziauddin Sardar