Had I realized while on Earth,” he said, “that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in the teachings of religion. As it was, I actually doubted its existence. A...

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.

One look at the officials in the American Consulate where we went for dreary paper routines was enough to make you realize what was wrong with American ‘diplomacy’ throughout the Fellaheen world: – stiff offcious...

The Impression that Pakistan being an Islamic State is thereby a Theocratic State is being sedulously fostered in certain quarters with the sole object of discrediting her in the eyes of the world. To anyone...

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that...

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

How does paying people more money make you more money?It works like this. The more you pay your workers, the more they spend. Remember, they’re not just your workers- they’re your consumers, too. The more...

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands,

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, ‘Now shut up and obey me.’ People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his...

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she’d invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty...

In diesem Jahr ging es darum, eine Politik zu beenden, für die der Soziologe Ulrich Beck den durchaus bewundernd gemeinten Begriff des »Merkiavellismus« gefunden hatte. Eine Politik, die ihre Ziele nicht benennt und auch nicht...

Sense isn’t democratic. A senseless opinion that’s advocated by ‘the majority’ is still senseless.

He wanted to see how the people [feel] about democracy and the war in Iraq. When he heard my negative response, he decided to take things in his own hands, I guess.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it’s through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

…the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we’re going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author’s Guild Council...

A central claim of the Bush administration’s foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those...

I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man.I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of...

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a...

The answer to 1984 is 1776

If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then...

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted–in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist...

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

decisive step in the development of democracy.

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

say” that the citizen has in ruling himself is due to the goodwill and the honesty of those to whom he has entrusted the power to rule him.

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted...

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because...

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of ‘democracy’ and ‘equality’ – they’re the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them...

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it’s about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people’s rights and dignity.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

Poor women enter politics with great difficulty. The duty of the fourth pillar of democracy – the media – is to protect such people but the owner of the newspaper misused his newspaper and even...

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public’s).

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,’ he [FDR] later told an adviser, ‘and came to the words “support the Constitution of the United States” I felt like saying: “Yes, but it’s the Constitution...