Browsing Quotes With Tag: democracy (8)
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If democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes.
Speaker: Albert CamusSource: the RebelPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What good fortune for those in power that people do not think
Speaker: Adolph HitlerPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction – so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people’s movements – that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.
...Most histories understand revolt, overemphasize statesmanship, and thus encourage impotency among citizens.
Speaker: Howard ZinnSource: A People's History of the United StatesPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing – for the managers. And it’s greatest strength is a free press – when free is defined as “responsible,” and the managers define what is “irresponsible.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinSource: the Moon is a Harsh MistressPosted: 02 Dec 2013 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 03 Nov 2011 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Speaker: E. B. WhitePosted: 29 Sep 2009 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
‘To me’, says Democritus, ‘a single man is a crowd, and a crowd is a single man.’
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!