#wors

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cycle #deep #democracy #drop #elections

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#good #great #how #mark #sportsmen

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#democracy #good #i #other #say

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#attitudes #better #i #i always #intractable

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#atmosphere #been #chemicals #condition #environmental

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#human #intentions #much #seems #sin

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #evils #man #prolongs #reality

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#began #building #finished #house #know