“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
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Tocqueville
3 quotes“The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manner...”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow”
Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Noam Chomsky
1 quote“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear...”
Alan Watts
1 quote“It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.”
St. Francis of Assisi
1 quote“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1 quote“Dissents speak to a future age.”
Imran Khan
1 quote“When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.”
Terry Pratchett
1 quote“TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.”
Audre Lorde
1 quote“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
John le Carré
1 quote“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.”
Thomas Mann
1 quote“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”