Democracy Quote by Philip Berrigan Download Open image “If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,” — Philip Berrigan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Differences Ifs Illegal Made Voting Would be
There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. — Jane Bowles Copy Share Image
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian,… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image