Taki Theodoracopulos's Quotes

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.