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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#establish #must #never #order #revolution

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.


Henry A. Wallace


#democracy #ends #fascism #fighting #germany

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.


Bernardo Bertolucci


#export #hollywood #only #trying

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?


David Graeber


#democracy #history #politics #equality

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.


Jorge Luis Borges


#abuse #democracy #statistics

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.


Peter Camejo


#democracy #every #greens #how #people

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.


Dennis Chavez


#democracy #either #fail #free #must

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.


Aldous Huxley


#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.


Alan Moore


#equality #government #misattributed #equality

It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?" "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "I'll look. Tell me about the lizards." Ford shrugged again. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." "But that's terrible," said Arthur. "Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.


Douglas Adams


#democracy #ford-prefect #h #humor