"Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy."

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Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2012). “The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century”, p.66, University of Oklahoma Press

Samuel P. Huntington

#Democracy Quotes #Oligarchy Quotes #Majority Quotes

“It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.”
“My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.”
“In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.”
“As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
“No one belongs to me; I belong to no one. There is no "I" or "mine"; all is blissful aloneless.”
“Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.”

Source : Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.
“My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and high-heeled shoes and a handbag. And someone's waiting to do my hair and makeup. You can tell I've been in too many romantic comedies.”

Source : "Judy Greer Wants a 13 Going on 30 Sequel - or to Just Do Another Rom Com With Jennifer Garner". Interview with Alyse Whitney, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2016.

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