"In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals."

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Paul Lafargue

#Rights Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Political Quotes

“On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.”
“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.”
“When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.”

Source : Joseph Parker (1885). “The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture”
“Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.”
“I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.”
“The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved”
“Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.”
“Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !”

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