It’s odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian don’t hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and, most entertainingly, to “rid the world of evildoers.” —Arundhati Roy More about this quote Tags: war peace irrationality democracy terrorism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: politics humor democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. —Alan Paton More about this quote Tags: freedom progress democracy surrender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: politics humor democracy anger blame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: politics democracy amusement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential. —Charles Bergquist More about this quote Tags: potential meaning democracy labor work equality job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance knowledge democracy voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: politics disappointment democracy voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. —Johnny Carson More about this quote Tags: politics accomplishment democracy USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. —Gustave Flaubert More about this quote Tags: politics democracy class stupidity bourgeois proletarian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: democracy equality inequality USA wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: democracy money vulgarity prices wages Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: politics power people democracy control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: justice truth power freedom peace words democracy change responsibility talk values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy. —Gillian Rose More about this quote Tags: love relationships democracy mercy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email