Viggo Mortensen Quotes

No band is special, no player royalty.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.

The supreme test of a democracy is the measure of equality of opportunity that it affords to its citizens to rise to the highest point of authority and position.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

All men are equal; it is not their birth, but virtue itself that makes the difference

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work.

The balance of a commonwealth that is equal is of such nature that whatever falleth into her empire must fall equally.

… in a republic where all are free and equal--prosperity and position constitute rank.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions.

In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

No one deserves anything more than anybody else. Because of that fact, you treat everyone the exact same way as best as you can. Same with musical ideas. My ideas aren't better than anybody else's.

Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.

NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.