Democracy Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Fallacy Freedom Opinion
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share
Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.” — John Hospers Copy Share Image
It's healthy to have differing opinions in a democracy, but we have to respect each other and challenge ourselves to do better - to… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs… — Richard von Weizsaecker Copy Share Image
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to list its own directory. So I tried some test problems on it. It insisted that 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999999999… When I tried to get it to admit that 4 = 2 + 2, it became angry and claimed that 4 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... So I gave up.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
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
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