„We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.“
Jean-Claude Juncker7
lucemburský politik 1954Podobné citáty
„Only when we step back can we see that we have been reassembling something that can stand in the wind.“
— Thomas Cahill American scholar and writer 1940
Introduction
„The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.“
— Mikhail Baryshnikov Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union 1948
„We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.“
— Garry Kasparov former chess world champion 1963
p. 62
„If there must be decision by a close majority, then let the people step in and let it be their majority that decides.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
„The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.“
— Ben Stein actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist 1944
As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85
„Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.“
— Rickard Falkvinge former head of the Swedish Pirate Party 1972
Wikinews Interview http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Avast_ye_scurvy_file_sharers%21%22:_Interview_with_Swedish_Pirate_Party_leader_Rickard_Falkvinge (June 20, 2006)
„It has been well said … that there are steps on the way to the summit of Dietetic Reform, and, if only one step be taken, yet that single step will be not without importance and without influence in the world. The step, which leaves for ever behind it the barbarism of slaughtering our fellow-beings, the Mammals and Birds, is, it is superfluous to add, the most important and most influential of all.“
— Howard Williams (humanitarian) English humanitarian 1837 - 1931
The Ethics of Diet, Preface http://www.ivu.org/history/williams/preface.html from the 1st edition, 1883.
„We see the wisest, most intelligent people take steps in life, that we must shake our head over.“
— Adolph Freiherr Knigge German writer and Freemason 1752 - 1796
„History shows that degeneracy can be turned around because it has been done in the past. But the real question today is: Will we turn it around-or is what we are doing likely to make matters worse?“
— Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930
Barbarians inside the Gates?
„From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.“
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821