Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorIn even the purest democracies, such as the United States and Switzerland, a privileged minority holds power over the enslaved majority.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorPowerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorThe state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorWoe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorEquality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorDemocracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThe church asks us to take off our hats when entering, not our heads.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorA fanatic is someone who can't change their mind and doesn't want to change the subject.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorThe politician must be able to predict what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year; and then explain why it didn't happen as he predicted.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorAfter an election recount, only the winner matters. Everyone else is a loser.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorDemocracy is the need to occasionally yield to the opinions of others.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorThe diplomat is a person who first thinks twice and finally says nothing.