Quotes of: Margaret Keyword

The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me? Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Darkness

? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them.” Margaret Bouchard

The Bouchard Legacy

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely ...

Martin Jacques

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

Tim Huelskamp

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

American Indians and Their Music

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

The Interpretation of Cultures

Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

No Laughing Matter

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine...

North and South

Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do.

North and South

She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.

Landline

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

The Serpent and the Rainbow

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, get...

Bill Shorten

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and...

Fred Upton

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

Joe Lieberman