Quotes in this theme
Society and the World
Benito Mussolini
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
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David Hume
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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Hunter S. Thompson
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Hunter S. Thompson
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Ambrose Bierce
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Honoré de Balzac
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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Sócrates
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of government.
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Sócrates
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of government.
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Margaret Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
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