“As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.” MayLongPainTermResultsDemocracyEconomicConscienceGainsEuropeDemocraticCommittedPeacefulReformLong TermUrgesPrisonerTransitionShort TermPledgeSanctionsCatalystEthiopiaEconomic Sanctions Author:Eskinder Nega
“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.” PeopleWantTryingLittlesCountryTurnsPowerfulPartyDemocracyGainsDemocratLikesRepublicPlaygrounds Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.” FeelsWellsReasonWinningLosesDemocracyExerciseGainsUpsetLoserRestraint Author:David Frum
“Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMeanMatterPoliticalChoicesIndividualDemocracyPlansEconomicInformationCoupleHeroGainsProgramOrganizationActivePushingHeroicIsolatedOrganizePolitical SystemsLeversEconomic PowerCoca ColaPepsi Author:Noam Chomsky
“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.” PeopleWayBelieveLibertyDemocracyGainsSlaveLibertarianBest WayLibertarianismRulingDemocracies HaveSubmissiveLibertarian Party Author:Joseph Sobran
“There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.” MenFirstsChildrenEndsStatesAgeIndividualCommunityFreedomEffortDemocracyRiskHonestHonestyGainsPropertySlaveIndividualityProfitOld AgeEnterpriseInseparableRisk-takingPrivate Enterprise Author:Russell Cornell Leffingwell