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"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny." -James Fenimore Cooper
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity." -James Fenimore Cooper
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -Abraham Lincon
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." -John Stuart Mill
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." -Gore Vidal
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear." -Alan Coren
"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects." -J. W. Fulbright
"The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy." -Nick Nuessle
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy." -Roger Baldwin
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences." -Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas
"The ballot is stronger than bullets." -Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." -Abraham Lincon Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
"Form follows function." -Louis Henri Sullivan, "Lippincott's Magazine", March 1896"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." -Eliel Saarinen, "Time", July 2, 1956
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Poet of Baalbek""If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." -James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." -Sir Winston Churchill
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destru ction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." -Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
"Fascism is capitalism in decay." -Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." -Upton Sinclair
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." -Frank Herbert
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." -
Sir Winston Churchill, November 11, 1937"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." -Richard Bach
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" -Sydney Harris
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." -Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it." -Carl Sagan
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russell
"Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." -Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes
"The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds." -John Lancaster Spalding, Means and Ends of Education
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." -Henry David Thoreau
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." -E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." -E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake." -Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." -Anais Nin, The Diaries of Ana飐Nin
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." -Orison Swett Marden
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." -Tupac Shakur
"I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale." -William J. Clinton
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs." -Anon.
"LSD melts your mind, not in your hand." -Anon.
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"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'" -Roy Blount, Jr.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. -Paul Kantner
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." -Rudyard Kipling
"To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times." -Mark Twain
"I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?" -Ken Faver
"I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?" -Ken Faver
"Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die." -Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty." -Ellen Stugis Hooper
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." -Wendell Berry
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." -Marshall McLuhan
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." -Johann von Goethe
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -Mark Twain
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." -Emma Goldman
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B. F. Skinner
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." -Anatole France
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." -Gail Godwin
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." -Russell Green
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." -Thomas Carlyle
"There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics." -Richard Livingstone, On Education

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