Best democracy & littles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .”

Men Littles Bits Democracy Walking Paper Little Bit Crosses Paid Bottom Pencils Tribute Little Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.”

People Littles Black White Democracy Rights Movement Civilization Majority Property South Civil Rights Minorities Relative Civil Rights Movement No Respect Civil Rights Act

Book:The Terrible Truth about Liberals

Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals

“I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.”

“The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.”

Littles Water Democracy Greater Quantity

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”

Ifs Men Heart Littles Democracy Greater Men And Women Democratic Touched Democratic Society

Book:The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988

Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered

“The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the rest... In a pure democracy the ruling men will be the wirepullers and their friends; but they will no more be on an equality with the voters than soldiers of Ministers of State are on an equality with the subjects of monarchy.”

Men Littles States Political Bits Results Numbers Democracy Cutting Subjects He Man Pure Little Bit Soldier Ministers Voters Ruling Monarchy Political Power

Book:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

“But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.”

Littles Stills Democracy Bags Decay Stubborn Garbage Junk Bouquets

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.”

“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.”

“It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.”

Littles Seems Process Democracy Boxes Dry Ballots Blunt

Author:Russell Brand

“Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.”

Ifs Way Wells Littles Long Government Form Three Names Virtue Democracy Worst Kings Mere Tyranny Superiority Royal Long Way Aristocracy Tolerable Oligarchy Great Person

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Reality Political Politics Community Money Party Democracy Election Ideology Voting Political Parties Election Time

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this.”

Ifs Mean Littles Facts Opportunity Force Differences Democracy Empowerment Embrace Kitchen Soup Lenses Relish Menus Commonality Participatory Democracy

Author:Sam Kass

“I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really believe that we have a sumptuary responsibility to make sure that life is decent for everybody in America, that you believe that society out to be broadly shared, and you believe that you can't have a real democracy unless you have a little bit, at least, of economic democracy.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Littles Real America Life Is Bits Responsibility Democracy Economic Brother Little Bit Decent Keepers

Author:Paul Krugman

“Like most Israelis, I know very little about the Arabs. We just look down on them and see them as a threat. We have absolutely no experience with a democratic country in our vicinity. Is it good or bad for us? I am convinced that democracy isn't just good for the people in those countries, but for Israel as well.”

People Knows Wells Looks Littles Country Democracy Threat Democratic Israel Convinced Vicinity Democratic Country

Author:Tom Segev

“In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.”

May Littles Ideas Grows Growing Up Democracy Policy Wrong Ideas

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

Ifs Men Littles Science Sports Leadership Freedom Knowledge Democracy Dangerous Danger Knowledge And Learning Knowledge Learning Knowledge And Understanding Little Knowledge Learning Knowledge Dangerous Man Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.”

Mean Littles Democracy Modern Highest Independent Election Crisis Presses Profound Available Commodity Free Market Judiciary Free Press Free Elections Independent Judiciary

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.”

Littles Form Used Bits Democracy Seeing Proud Little Bit Used To Be Ashamed Be Proud

Author:Miguel Gomes

“Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.”

People Littles Struggle Democracy Appeals Struggling To Survive

Author:Paul Kagame

“There is no "ruler" in our country. Poland is a democracy. Our Prime Minister leads the government; the President is fulfilling his tasks. But there is a little bit left for the party leader.”

Littles Country Government Left Bits President Party Leader Democracy Little Bit Tasks Our Country Ministers Prime Rulers Fulfilling Prime Minister Poland

Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.”

People Want Trying Littles Country Turns Powerful Party Democracy Gains Democrat Likes Republic Playgrounds

Author:Rush Limbaugh

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