Quotes on “democracy”

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.