"As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century."

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Source : Robert A. Dahl (2015). “On Democracy”, p.13, Yale University Press

Robert A. Dahl

#Men Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.”
“[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.”
“Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
“FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.”
“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”
“Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.”
“Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.”
“There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.”

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