Ralph Nader Quotes
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran Lebowitz
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
Ferdinand Buisson
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
J. C. Watts
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
Safak Pavey
There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
P. J. O'Rourke
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
Pat Buchanan
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Karen Armstrong
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
Walter Gropius
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?
Declan Shalvey
Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
Katherine Hannigan
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things, and there is no rhyme or reason. I am very lucky because I come from England, and you have a whole range of things offered to you, from television plays and shows and theatre, so much more to explore, so it's never really money.
Peter Morgan
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.
Ernest K. Gann
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader