A Quote by Paul Samuelson

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Paul Samuelson

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Paul Samuelson
American - Economist
Born: May 15, 1915

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Warren Christopher

People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.

Kate Nash

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Randolph Bourne

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

Ann Brashares

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Patty Hearst

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Ronald Reagan

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

Scott Westerfeld

I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

Donald Trump

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

Andrew McMahon

We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile.

Ralston Bowles

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

Nicholas Sparks

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

John Green

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.

Owen Jones

Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

Daniel Lubetzky

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

David Mitchell

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