Republic Quotes - Page 33

• I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Writing, Fire

  "Picking Through the Ruins: How Do We Stop The DRC’s War Against Women" by Lynn Nottage, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.

  Susan Sontag

  Plato, Book, Self

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

  Albert Camus

  Forgiveness, Impossible, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage

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• While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Plato, Philosophy, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.248

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• I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

  John Legend

  Dresses, Bananas, Management

  "John Legend On Fashion Trends" by Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  Larry Sabato

  Rights, Design, Bills

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, People, Enforcement

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• The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

  Ali Khamenei

  Party, Islamic, Atmosphere

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Unity, Essentials, Principal

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• Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Civilization, People

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

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• The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Bias And Prejudice, Safety

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Voice, Judging

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• I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Team, Former

  Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

  Robert Trout

  Philosophy, Example, Philosopher

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• The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Foundation

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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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• I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

  Romany Malco

  Europe, Paris, England

  "Romany Malco Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, UNSUPERVISED, and His YouTube Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

  Chris Hughes

  Reading, Years, Majority

  "New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media" By Brian Stelter, Michael J. de la Merced, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com. March 9, 2012.

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• If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.

  Greil Marcus

  Country, Book, Done

  "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Self, Doe

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• My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Jobs, Korea, Wife

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

  Karl Liebknecht

  World, Defeat, Proletariat

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• Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

  Mark Twain

  Renaissance, Permission

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.240, Velvet Element Books

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