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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.


Benjamin Disraeli

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.
ADI GODREJ Never argue. In society nothing must be discussed; give only results. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804–188...
ROBERT GREENE The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next elect...
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and...
MIMI KENNEDY Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
LINDA LINGLE Significantly, it was HANNAH ARENDT At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Democracy is like the free circus performed by the politicians
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go ou...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of sta...
AMBROSE BIERCE Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
CHARLES KENNEDY The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians...
ELIZABETH COLEMAN Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium ex...
KILROY J. OLDSTER My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: / For whom the L...
BIBLE When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
GABRIELLE DUBOIS Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with th...
JONATHAN MABERRY I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to ...
GEORGE CANNING One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the d...
GARRY KASPAROV In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hol...
JERRY DELLA FEMINA I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this
HUGH HAMILTON Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ec...
HENRY ROLLINS Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic m...
STEPHEN KINZER Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, eve...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA It was really exhilarating to see these folks - common, everyday people, not politicians - coming to...
SAM CAHNMAN The Society of Professional Journalists believes that "public enlightenment is the forerunner of jus...
LARRY J. SCHWEIGER Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
TATYANA ALI Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this wors...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.
WILL ROGERS there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the regi...
ALI ZARDARI "Don't be an "ooer", be a doer." -J. Benjamin Pierce Quick meaning: Don't be one whom stares in awe ...
J. BENJAMIN PIERCE I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominio...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spe...
NANCY SNOW Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.”
ANNE RICE So shines a good deed in a weary world.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when yo...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photo...
ELLIOTT ERWITT Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
BIBLE The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of governmen...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
THEODORE WHITE The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
THEODORE H. WHITE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Unfortunately for Nigel he has a pack of players in front of him, some of whom are the best in the w...
ALAN PARDEW A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.
ALEXIS TSIPRAS The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No...
ISAAC ASIMOV It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No...
ISAAC ASIMOV Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
VIRGINIA FOXX Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presid...
MARK MCKINNON That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of al...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems t...
KILROY J. OLDSTER That blessed mood,In which the burden of the mystery,In which the heavy and the weary weightOf all t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH They're fine people. I understand what they're going through. This is the world of democracy.
CRAIG SHER Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americ...
BARBARA BOXER The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa ...
JOE GARCIA Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
BIBLE Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
ADA YONATH I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world: Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it West...
APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv...
NICKOLE SANDERS The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, whe...
SIMONE WEIL A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, ju...
ANN MEDLOCK I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing po...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
MARK TWAIN With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" ended by leaving democracy more u...
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intol...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignor...
JAMES BOVARD It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
DAVID HARSANYI A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring ...
NATAN SHARANSKY Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...
WILL DURANT Democracy passes into despotism.
PLATO Iraq has no history of democracy.
JACK STRAW Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not re...
JAMES BALDWIN The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW WILSON The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW T. WILSON Petitio statements and rhetorical questions can become weary when you have fully accepted someone fo...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Adventures are to the adventurous.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI ¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI