Quotes About Mandarins

Hamilton seemed to spark controversy at every turn. At the time of his July Fourth oration, New York still had not selected its first two senators. Under the Constitution, this decision fell to state legislatures, insuring that local mandarins would have a disproportionate say in the matter.

A predominance of mandarins always means something is wrong; so do the advent of democracy, international courts in place of war, equal rights for women, the religion of pity, and whatever other symptoms of declining life there are.

There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs mandarins want out of the Canada-China relationship, which is in any case rarely even close to what Canadians want - like some demonstrable public benefit for once, the opinion polls consistently show.

Roman augurs and Chinese mandarins both knew well that when rumors about monstrous beings became more than usually common in a community, that might indicate rising stresses that could take a more overt political form later on. The same logic still applies today; the parts of America most caught up in the cattle mutilation panic of the mid-1970s, for example, were exactly those areas where radical anti-government activism took off most rapidly a decade later.

Le confucianisme est en effet, avant tout, l'expression d'une caste, celle des lettrés, ceux qu'on appelle les mandarins, représentants du nouvel ordre social et politique qui s'organise peu à peu, après la désintégration féodale, en somme les administrateurs et 'fonctionnaires' de cette Chine nouvelle.

That is why I believe that this coterie of vain mandarins and cowardly politicians stained the honor of my country forever, and I will never forgive them.

Zamiatine era um oráculo, e não se dirigia simplesmente a Estaline: espicaçava todos os ditadores por vir, tanto os oligarcas de Silicon Valley como os mandarins do partido único chinês.