A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Quotes
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCSic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865