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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.


Adam Smith


#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

The time to make up your mind about people, is never.


Philip Barry


#tracy-lord #acting

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.


Theodore Roosevelt


#democracy #elections #voters #character

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.


François Mauriac


#literacy #reading #heart

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.


Mark Twain


#attributed-no-source #literacy #read

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.


Suzanne Collins


#humanity #public-opinion #games

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.


Joseph Brodsky


#censorship #illiteracy #reading #read

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.


Howard Zinn


#civil-disobedience #democracy #dissent #law #protest

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.


Naomi Klein


#politics #voting #dignity

Beware the man of a single book.


St. Thomas Aquinas


#ignorance #illiteracy #limitation #ignorance






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