#racy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #racy




I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.


William F. Buckley


#diversity #political-philosophy #democracy

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#democracy

Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.


Noam Chomsky


#democracy

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.


Matt Taibbi


#democracy #elections #government #greed #wall-street

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.


Thucydides


#elections #fairness #losing #office #democracy

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.


Naomi Klein


#democracy

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.


Reinhold Niebuhr


#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#democracy

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.


Mike Carey


#lucifer #democracy

There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.


Thomas Pynchon


#conspiracy #freemasonry #illuminati #anarchism