“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Tag: Democracy
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“Democracy is a thing which is always breaking down through the complexity of civilisation.” — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” — H. L. Mencken, Minority Report
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“Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.” — John Cleese, From the Human Face, BBC Television (2001)
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“When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook
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“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance,” Newsweek (1980-01-21)
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“When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often get this reaction: ‘Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?’” — Clay Shirky, How the Internet will (one day) transform government
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“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.” — H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major
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“It’s not the voting that’s democracy. It’s the counting.” — Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
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