Bad Quote by Chinua Achebe

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

— Vijay Prashad

I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad,…

— Vijay Prashad

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what…

— Madeleine Albright

Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity.…

— Vijay Prashad

Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman…

— Akbar Ganji

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

— Winston Churchill

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to takepart in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

— Plato

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

— Plato

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson