The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself… The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

About Laurence J. Peter

Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.

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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

—Laurence J. Peter

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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

—Laurence J. Peter

More quotations tagged with “democracy”

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

—Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

—H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

—G. K. Chesterton

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History

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The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.