“We don't need people who can spit back facts. We've got Google.” Quote by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
“More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive” MayDemocracyFairsBalancedExclusiveNot Fair Author:Neal Gabler
“We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.” KnowsDoneAsksNamesDemocracyBeing Done Author:Ben Ehrenreich
“I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.” WantSometimesJobsPoliticalGirlTakenNiceHeavyResentMidwestNice GirlPushy Author:Cindy Crawford
“Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.” DoeCountryFormDemocracyBenefitsExpectationsCurrentsExpectedDevelopingGlobalizationCivil SocietyDeveloping CountriesMillennium Development Goals Author:Martin Khor
“The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.” SelfDemocracyImagineResponseSelf RespectParticipating Author:Fred Reed
“Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.” CharacterFacesGamesMoralClassDemocracyParticularAmountActivityIntellectualLowsWeakVotingDisplayEmbarrassmentFacing The TruthCollusionWeak Character Author:Fred Reed
“Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.” DemocracySolutionsSakeTiesCoatsDressed UpMob RuleCoat And Tie Author:Doug Casey
“Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.” MightLawValuesForceDemocracyGroupsCitizensUltimateMajoritySticksBlockCodeHypocrisyLive ByBullyAbidingMajority Rule Author:William J. Murray
“Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.” IfsMenWantDifferentWantedForceDemocracySubjectsPureVoteMajorityTricksMinoritiesOur SocietyOne ManMajority Rule Author:William J. Murray