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"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan
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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." »James Madison
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." »G. K. Chesterton
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"the Partition of palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." »Menachem Begin
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"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee
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"there was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. the contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation." »Albert Einstein
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"the basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people." »Charles W. Tobey
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"the state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"the democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence." »Philo Vance
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"the accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship." »George Frost Kennan
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"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world." »Clare Booth Luce
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"the class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." »Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
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"And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. the most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green
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""Whats right isn't always popular and whats popular isn't always right."" »Tom Zegan
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"the process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media." »Eduard Sagalaev
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"I believe and I say it is true democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer." »William Henry Harrison
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different." »Tony Bennet
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." »Wilson Mizner
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"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope." »Arnold Glasgow
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"popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy." »Noam Chomsky
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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