“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.” IfsThinkingHumansMoralClassDemocracyMiddleMouthsIntelligentContemporaryTendenciesHuman LifeAbundanceOur SocietyConsumerismDistributionClingingScarcityOverconsumptionBreadthDegradingUpper ClassGags Book:All Labor Has Dignity Source: All Labor Has Dignity
“Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.” PeopleIfsDemocracyMassIntelligentStupidityGuarantees Author:Joseph Sobran
“Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsUsePoliticalChoicesStuffDecisionOpinionDemocracyIssuesSmartAdvantageVoteIntelligentInstinctUselessGutsVotingDisagreeSmart PeopleMaking DecisionsCluelessPolitical IssuesGut InstinctHighly Intelligent Author:Scott Adams
“In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.” Has BeensStoriesDemocracyListeningIntelligentLifetimeAcceptedBuriedPrivilegedVocabularyArenaExcludedReceptionMarginalizedDisenfranchised Author:Susan Griffin
“After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?” PeopleIfsNeedsChildrenCountryGrowsHalfDemocracyPlanetsIntelligentSensitiveSeatsDriversFragile Author:Alice Walker