Democracy 3 quotes12/19/2023 “The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. “Domestic spying initiatives never die, they just get new acronyms.” You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” Former Congressman John Anderson, on the need to change the Electoral College “All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored” “The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems.” ![]() “In 1997, 20 officials in the federal government were empowered to wield the top secret stamp. “Political freedom is a society’s safety valve, allowing the passionately critical a nonviolent way to express their dissatisfaction with the status quo.” “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” “If you think you are too small to make an impact, try sleeping in a room with a few mosquitoes. “You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” “There’s no point in collecting all that (phone spying) information if you don’t analyze it, and when you do it’s inevitable that you learn things about at least some innocent people that those people thought were nobody else’s business, certainly not the government’s.” “The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.” –Slogan of French student protestors in 1968 “No replastering, the structure is rotten” “The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else’s back. “Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.” “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.” “In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. “Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.” “the practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.” Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation.” “Only in Washington, perhaps, is honesty considered a major gaffe.” “When one hundred million people don’t vote, the nation is not bitterly divided. “The time is always right to do what is right.” “Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.” The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you’re using it.” “The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” “Yes, our regulatory agencies are incompetent. “What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn’t allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?” –Business Week cover story investigating the impacts of corporate environmental initiatives “Much corporate environmentalism boils down to misleading statistics and hype.” ” A real free market does not allow one person to damage another person with impunity.” “Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they’re incoherent.” Judith Hertog, on China’s repression in Tibet “If we don’t speak up, we are cowards and accomplices.” “No journalist makes $5 million a year… Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.” “Sometimes inefficiency is the price we pay for democracy.” ![]() “To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
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