Sunday 11 December 2011

My Favorite Quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. 
Winston Churchill 
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. 
Will Rogers
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. 
Agnes Repplier
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. 
H.L. Mencken 
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt 
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. 
Alexander Tytler 
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. 
Laurence J. Peter 
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. 
Oscar Wilde